What is happening to our children? Only four years after the massacre at Columbine High School sent a chill through our nation, Time magazine ran a feature story on violent behavior at American schools among 3- to 6-year-olds. The emergence of such behavior makes it imperative that we recognize that we are in the midst of an ever-worsening crisis in parenting, a crisis that is leading to a plague of uncontrollable, joyless, alienated, disaffected and even violent children. Children, including those who are considered privileged, are no longer developing empathy, moral commitment and the ability to love. These emotionally stunted...