Madeline Levine has been a practicing psychologist for 25 years,
but it was only recently that she began to observe a new breed of
unhappy teenager. When a bright, affluent 15-year-old girl, a
seemingly unlikely candidate for emotional problems, came into her
office with the word 'empty' carved into her left forearm, Levine
was shaken. The girl and her cutting seemed to personify a
startling pattern Levine had been observing among her teenage
patients, all of them bright, affluent, and clearly loved by their
parents. Behind a veneer of strength, many of them suffered extreme
emotional problems: depression, anxiety, and substance abuse. What
was going on?Meticulous research confirmed Levine's worst
suspicions. Privileged adolescents nation-wide are experiencing
epidemic rates of emotional problems, more than children from any
other socio-economic group, including those in dire poverty. The
various strands of this perfect storm - materialism, pressure to
achieve, and parental difficulties with attachment and separation -
point to a crisis in America's culture of affluence, a culture that
is as unmanageable for children as it is for their parents,
particularly their mothers. While many privileged kids have the
ability to make a 'good' impression, alarming numbers lack the
basic foundation of psychological development - the self. They are
bland, disinterested, uncreative, and most of all unhappy. And
their parents often fail to see that anything is wrong. A
controversial look at privileged families, this book disposes of
the 'overparenting' paradigm now in vogue, exploding one
child-rearing myth after another.
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