A critical look at America's culture of affluence explores the epidemic of emotional and psychological problems crippling America's privileged youth, identifying parenting practices that hinder self-development and that have contributed to these problems--exemplified by depression, substance abuse, [...]

Psychologist Madeline Levine brings together cutting-edge research and thirty years of clinical experience to explode once and for all the myth that good grades, high test scores, and college acceptances should define the parenting endgame.Parents, educators, and the media wring their hands about th[...]