It isn't normal. Kids eat sugar and fast food crap, and parents are uninvolved. It really irks me.
Oh, and consumerism is indeed a word.
There is a great site called the New American Dream that has some interesting stuff to look at that ties in with what you are talking about. http://www.newdream.org/
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Date: 2007-11-08 10:17 pm (UTC)Oh, and consumerism is indeed a word.
There is a great site called the New American Dream that has some interesting stuff to look at that ties in with what you are talking about.
http://www.newdream.org/