I know that TV has enabled bad parenting. I suspect radio did, too.
I think there have always been neglectful, inattentive parents, and it's just a question of how current technology affects the shape of modern parenthood, both good and bad. But it's still interesting to read about parents ignoring children to talk on cell phones, or text or tweet or whatever.
I just visited with a family that consciously chooses to eschew technology and focus on playing acoustical music and card games and read books with their children. The broad strokes of society are not changing. Bad parents just have new ways to be bad parents.
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