NY Tmes Op-Ed Columnist: How We Are Ruining America

[Zinhead]

I could hardly get past this sentence at the end of the second paragraph:

Over the past few decades, upper-middle-class Americans have embraced behavior codes that put cultivating successful children at the center of life. As soon as they get money, they turn it into investments in their kids.

How is this not a good thing?
David Brooks concedes that it’s not (“of course there’s nothing wrong in devoting yourself to your own progeny”). But weren’t these behavior codes once fairly common across the whole American SES spectrum?

It would be nice if someone wrote a book about this phenomenon.