" Today, for most kids in the United States and Canada, kids’ primary attachment is to other kids. “For the first time in history,” Neufeld observes, “young people are turning for instruction, modeling, and guidance not to mothers, fathers, teachers, and other responsible adults but to people whom nature never intended to place in a parenting role—their own peers. . "

― Leonard Sax , The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grown-Ups