Within the past 6 months, there was a book reviewed in the San
Francisco Chronicle and I would like the author and title. The book is
about parents of the 1960s who are too permissive with their children.
The title of the book review was, "Spoiled Brats", I think, and the
author was either a child psychologist or a pediatrician as I recall.

Hi susiepie,

I believe the book you are looking for is called:

"The Epidemic: The Rot of American Culture, Absentee and Permissive
Parenting, and the Resultant Plague of Joyless, Selfish Children" by
Dr. Robert Shaw.

The Selfish Child 
"A new book on kids questions modern parenting methods, from day care
to self-esteem building.
Child and family psychiatrist Robert Shaw says he wrote the latest
book in the child-care advice genre because he had to. After the teen
shootings at Columbine, he asked himself, "How would you have to raise
your kids for them to do this?" His answer lay in the past three
decades of books on child rearing."
(...)
"Children are extremely malleable and plastic, and how we rear them is
the major determinant of their outcome. I believe the parenting trends
that have evolved over the last 30 years promote the development of
unattached, non- communicative, learning impaired and uncontrollable
children. We are experiencing an epidemic of school problems, both
learning and behavioral."

San Francisco Chronicle: August 31, 2003
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2003/08/31/CM221694.DTL


This book is available at Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060011831/ref=ase_lightpatch-20/002-5630895-5981610

Also available at Barnes and Noble:
http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=34T28KH1XD&isbn=0060011831&itm=1


Search criteria:
"san francisco chronicle" "spoiled brats"
book parents permissive 1960s SF chronicle
book parents permissive 1960s 
book "permissive parenting" 1960s
2003 book "permissive parenting" 1960s


I hope this is helpful. If you have any questions regarding my answer
please don't hesitate to ask before rating it.

Best regards,
rainbow-ga