THE TOUGH-LOVE GENERATION

tough:
not brittle or tender
not easily influenced, as a person; unyielding; stubborn
hardened; incorrigible
difficult to perform, accomplish, or deal with; hard, trying, or troublesome
hard to bear or endure
vigorous; severe; violent
vicious; rough; rowdyish
practical, realistic, and lacking in sentimentality; tough-minded
(Dictionary.Com)

I have decided on a name for our parents' generation: The Tough-Love Generation.

Wikipedia has this to say about tough-love:
"The rise in numbers of death of teenagers participating in tough-love-based programs has questioned the principle of tough love."

And this is from an article about tough-love programs by Maia Szalavitz in the Washington Post:
"The last thing such kids need is another experience of powerlessness, humiliation and pain. Moreover, the very notion of making kids who are already suffering go through more suffering is psychologically backwards. And there is little data to
support these institutions' claims of success."