In his famous
book, God and Man at Yale (1951), William F. Buckley lamented the
collapse of Christian consciousness among higher
academics, and hoped conservatives could reverse the trend.
In my
book, The
Collapse of Parenting, I share data from many sources — including the National Institutes
of Health, international databases such as the PISA program, scholarly papers by researchers such as Professor Jean Twenge, and many other sources — showing that American kids are indeed more likely to be obese, less likely to be physically fit, more likely to be anxious and depressed, compared with American kids 30 years ago — and in the case
of academic achievement, doing much less well compared with kids in other countries, again a big change compared with American kids 30 years ago.