Article November 4, 1972 Issue

God Never Left Home

[For parents]

Many social analysts trace the apathy and anger of the militant young to their despair over the lack of leadership from their parents.

"I think many militant students are unconsciously searching for adults who will act as adults—without apology or ambivalence or guilt; adults who will not be bamboozled by adolescent irrationality; adults who respond with swift rebuffs to those challenges to authority that are, at bottom, a testing by the young of the moral confidence of their elders."^{ Look, April 29, 1969;}

One of the frustrations of many parents who might like to live up to Leo Rosten's implied advice is that they are not at all sure of their own moral position. And though they might be willing to take a stand for authority, it is quite difficult for them to do so with no idea how to go about enforcement.

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