Letter: Authoritarian culture doesn’t help teens

Utah doesn’t merely have a teen reform school problem. It has an underlying parenting problem that supports it, and is probably intractable.Who has not watched the iconic pop culture movie “Footloose” (1984) and not realized what an apt picture of Utah parenting culture it represents? Set in the Wasatch Front, it is the story of teens oppressed by an excessively authoritarian culture, fighting for the need to develop, inquire and express themselves on their own terms. In the mo