The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids

A critical look at America's culture of affluence explores the epidemic of emotional and psychological problems crippling America's privileged youth, identifying parenting practices that hinder self-development and that have contributed to these problems--exemplified by depression, substance abuse, anxiety, and other extreme ailments. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.