Epidemic The Rot of American Culture, Absentee and Permissive Parenting, and the Resultant Plague of Joyless, Selfish Children

Robert Shaw, M.D., a child and family psychiatrist practicing in Berkeley, California, is the director of the Family Institute of Berkeley. He specialized in child psychiatry at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York City and taught at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he trained residents in community psychiatry as the chief of the Family and Children's Mental Health Services for the entire South Bronx. He then directed the Family and Children's Mental Health Services for the city of Berkeley. The father of four grown children, he lives with his wife, Judith, in the San Francisco Bay Area Stephanie Wood was formerly executive editor for Child magazine and has written about parenting and family issues in such publications as Parenting, Parents, Family Life, Baby Talk, Redbook, McCalls, and Woman's Day. She lives in Blauvelt, New York, with her husband and three young childrenShaw, Robert is the author of 'Epidemic The Rot of American Culture, Absentee and Permissive Parenting, and the Resultant Plague of Joyless, Selfish Children', published 2003 under ISBN 9780060011833 and ISBN 0060011831.