The Price of Privilege
Why children of wealthy, high-achieving families are often so unhappy, and what their parents can change.
Madeline Levine, a psychologist who has worked with many affluent families, describes high rates of depression, anxiety and substance abuse among teenagers from well-off homes. She links them to intense pressure to achieve and to parents who are closely involved in their children’s performance but less attuned to their inner lives. The book offers parents a different approach built on independence and connection.
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Peg Tyre
Levine worries that we’re creating a generation of overpressured and overprivileged kids who don’t know how to thrive on their own. Her message to parents is: Manipulating our children to succeed so we can feel good about ourselves is selfish, and runs the risk of creating hollow, unhappy and unloving kids who will hate us when they become adults.
Interview · October 2011
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