Gerald Rowles, a consulting psychologist and president of DADI, Dads Against the Divorce Industry-

Boomers are filled with anxiety about freedom, but not the traditional freedoms that made this country strong.

"The freedom issue here is a kind of unbounded, narcissistic, self-indulgent freedom to pursue one's own hedonistic needs - the freedom to always feel good, absolved of personal responsibility." Rowles writes.

"But just as Freud suggested, anxiety is a knock at the door, alerting us to the fact that something is awry. Too much freedom and self-indulgence was, in the past, followed by an appropriate sense of guilt. But in an age when God is dead, guilt is a politically incorrect notion that remains unexpressed in its essence, and experienced only in its vagueness as anxiety."

Dr. Benjamin Spock convinced several generations of parents to indulge their children, to allow them to grow without boundaries or punishment and to believe that childrearing is an intellectual challenge rather than a matter of common sense.

The escalation of child violence mirrors the massive exposure to TV, movies and music that treat casual and grotesque violence as a common and "cool" phenomenon.

"The most important lessons of childhood is discipline: disciplined behavior, disciplined thought, and discipline based in the morality of right and wrong, good and bad, and clear rules for human interaction," Rowles writes.