We also, as a society, don't want to raise our kids. We want to have them, we're supposed to you know, two cars, a two story house and 2.3 children. But raising them? No, that's work. So many of them are being raised cattle-fashion and parents are too tired to be parents at the end of the day. We've bought, lock, stock and barrel the belief that both parents have to work. My generation proved that latch-key kids grown up to be ok, but in my generation only 1 in 10 kids was home alone. Now 9.5 in 10 kids are.

Regardless of how we label it, we need to deal with it.

I agree, and sadly, I think we won't (deal with it).