Teens Do Not Love Their Parents As Much As Caitlin Flanagan Thinks

This weekend's New York Times featured an opinion piece by noted polemicist (and better mom than you) Caitlin Flanagan that addressed the decrease in the number of 16-year-olds with driver's licenses.

"That a profound change has taken place in the relationship between American teenagers and their parents is made clear by statistics from the Federal Highway Administration showing a steady decline in the number of licensed teenage drivers. In the last decade, the proportion of 16-year-olds nationwide who hold driver's licenses has dropped from nearly half to less than one-third," she writes. Interesting! Why might that be? According to Flanagan, it's because kids are happy having mom and dad chauffeur them around.