I recently came across The Happiest Kids in the World: Bringing up Children the Dutch Way, which provides persuasive evidence that parenting is done very well indeed in the Netherlands. In the US, family life seems to be breaking down.

And then I read today that Dutch crime rates are so low (and prison sentences so short) that prisons are being closed. The US has by far the largest prison population in the world, with China, Russia and Brazil some distance behind.

Could there be a connection?

I love this "America First, Netherlands Second" video. But maybe it should be the other way around?