Rearing them right: Should modern parents bring back ‘the man’?

“Back in the 80s, parents outsourced the job of discipline to the phantom strangers anywhere in sight… ‘the man’ or ‘the woman’ was a handy tool to put manners on anyone misbehaving. Would it work now?

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