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The bestselling author of Alienated America traveled the country asking families and experts the same questions: why is parenting so much harder even though the kids are less happy than than a generation ago?Parenting seems harder these days, and Millennials and Generation Z don't seem up for it. Why? It's easy to blame cost or selfishness, but kids have long been an economic drag, and adults have always been selfish. The question is: What's changed? The answer is culture. Our culture is less friendly to parenting that it used to be, and should be.When we were kids, no one was watching us every moment. That was a good thing: it meant our parents felt confident in the society around us.That was the past. Today, the mode of parenting is about hypercontrol.