I think that’s late stage behaviors (permissiveness).
I believe early deficits in parenting (neglecting basic parental roles) created, sadly, children who are underdeveloped emotionally. For too many, they will be permanently children as they age - self centered, impatient, bored.
The neglect of their children comes back to haunt parents starting around teen aged years and getting more obvious as the children age into narcissistic, angry people. I believe our country is facing an ominous rise in emotional/mental disturbance in the younger generation among those who had “modern” self centered parents who tried to make sure having children didn’t impede ANY of their own lifes wants, wishes, “needs.”
Read a report recently saying college counseling services are overwhelmed ( 3 times more students in need) by students requiring “serious” mental health services for depression and other illneses. I want schools to have counselors for troubled students - it really can save them from suicide etc. I don’t believe all students with emotional problems had “bad” parents - there are many mental illnesses and syndromes that are of unknown origin or have organic causes etc. But you just can’t staff enough services to make up for the way our society has added to common mental health issues by making parenting more of a side hobby. The tsunami of emotional problems resulting from “best buddy” or “never home” parenting is coming and it’s going to continue to grow.
An example is kids today dictate what they eat not the parents
I am amazed whenever I eat at a friends or family member's house who has kids, the kid will never eat what the parent cooked for dinner, instead the parent will usually "cook" their little precious a separate meal just for them.
And by cook, I mean go into the freezer and microwave a frozen dinner of Chicken Nuggets and Mac&Cheese or some other processed food crap.
And I am not talking about picky 3 year old toddlers, we're talking 10-12 year old tweens who probably never sat down at the dinner table.
This caused a lot tension last Christmas at my home, my new wife cooked Christmas dinner for the family for the 1st time and went out of her way to make nice kids meals, but one after one of my family members with kids showed up with their own frozen box of Chicken Nuggets and Mac&Cheese in hand to give their kids.
When I was a kid (yeah I know, I sound old), once you got a certain age you sat the table and you couldn't leave until you finished your plate of whatever your mom cooked. Not anymore, today the kids are the boss.
No wonder kids today are spoiled and screwed up, their brains are probably damaged from all the processed food they eat.