[Al Gator]

When you don't spank your kids for doing bad, when you puff them up with "self esteem" even when they are failing, when you refuse to make them take responsibility for their actions, then you have bred a generation of emotional losers who are all full of fart gas and nothing else.

Such a preening, self important wastrel does not know how to handle rejection or reprimand or someone pointing out to them that they are losers. When this happens, their ridiculously blown out of proportion sense of "pride" in themselves, causes them to freak out and, not knowing how else to act, they reach for the only thing that they think will "right the wrong done me". And now you reap what you have sewn.

[jammer]

Good explication of a major part of the problem.