A feature in the The Times reflected on the impact of a study by American sociologist Professor Jean Twenge, suggesting it showed today's young people are so over-praised by uncritical, over-supportive parents that they are unjustifiably self-confident, entirely unaware of their shortcomings and generally spoilt and unpleasant. Not everyone buys this. Another American academic, Alfie Kohn, criticises the notion that it's anything goes nowadays. "Even generally liberal people have a very dark view of children...