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and Obamomics. His new book is Family Unfriendly, How Our Culture Made Raising Kids Much Harder, Much harder than it needs to be. That's our topic today. Welcome, Mr. Carney. Hey, thanks for having me.

All right. Well, the preface covers a regular gathering called Friday Night Lights. Jumping right in

here, what is Friday Night Lights and what does it represent or enact on your theme? At first, i thought friday night lights was when we signed up

for it was just t-ball and youth baseball at a local parish the parish next door to ours it was called

st bernadette's when i got there i realized soon what friday night lights really was which was a

place to bring your children

and ignore them while you socialize with other adults and not just ignore your t-ball player,

but the older kids are playing wall ball and the younger kids are climbing on the playground.

And there's somebody, some teenager probably watching the playground.

And it was a place to build community to be a regular place to raise your kids,

but not have to have your eyes and your hands and your mind constantly on them.

And that is really something that a lot of suburban middle class,

upper middle class parents desperately

need.

And it's part of the culture that I talk about in family unfriendly.

The culture that makes it harder to raise kids, part of it is for various reasons we either

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