[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

I agree. I think it's also because, relatively speaking, parents are strangers to their children. After all, if society determines that children should spend more time in school than at home, what is a child to conclude about the relative importance of each?

Sadly, parents become interlopers in their children's lives. Why wouldn't teens treat parental intrusions into their lives with disdain? Who are they to give orders? All children are special, and probably smarter than their parents, who still cling to old-fashioned religious beliefs.

[MrB]

Perhaps this is why more “hipsters” are getting into it -
they’re ashamed, or just offended, seeing their reflection in the mirror of their children’s behavior.