IMHO, American society is quicker to savage parents, and blast them hard, for any issues pertaining to their children than pretty much any other society in the world. In any YouTube video, Facebook post or online article pertaining to the behavioral or other issues of a minor (or even young adult,) a large portion of the comments in the comments section will immediately take the form of blaming the parents, or at the least, a “Where were/are the parents?”, and blame poor parenting almost as a reflexive knee-jerk reaction.
Granted, almost every society lays a certain amount of blame at the parents’ feet for the behavior of their offspring - and, of course, oftentimes things *are *the parents’ fault - but it seems that U.S. society is particularly quick to shoot verbal flamethrowers at parents, more so than other countries. There’s just a quicker trigger finger to attack the parents than there is elsewhere.
Is this an American morality-complex thing, like a strain of the same ethic that leads to the fictional branding of adulteresses with scarlet letter A’s or the real-life Salem hunts?