Landers comments on the types of questions her readers ask and lists what she believes are the biggest social problems in the United States. These include: a generation of children who value nothing because they never had to earn anything, a result of our affluent society; the growing influence of television and the media on children, coupled with a lack of parental role models; and the rise in drug use, which Landers believes is chiefly the result of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War.