Often there is no person at home most days, so children decide whether to make their own meals or go out to restaurants, when to watch tV or do homework. They organize their own social lives. They play no childhood games. They become adults before they're ready.
Hollywood has always been the city of dreams. The kids in L.A. live unreal lives where money, beauty and pleasure are the only gods. Will children around the world soon start to think the same? Or do they already?