In his New York Times bestselling book The Collapse of Parenting, Dr. Leonard Sax quotes someone as saying the following: “For the first time in history, 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. Children are being brought up by immature persons who cannot possibly guide them to maturity. They are being brought up by each other.”