Ginia Bellafante writes in today's New York Times that The Real Housewives of Orange County reveals much about Orange County-style parenting.Parenthood supplies a strange and fascinating dimension of The Real
Housewives of Orange County, which increasingly feels like Mildred
Pierce: the habit of indulging children materially, instead of making
them go to the library or disciplining them, backfires with a
spectacular regularity. Later:The women have
very little idea of how most of their children
