If America goes down the tubes, it will be because voters send their Child into the voting booth to vote Parents into political office while their rational Adult sits out in the car. In The Child in the Voting Booth, Dr. Ray Smith attempts to educate the Adult in voters in hopes their rational Adult will come in and take charge. In clear and often humorous language, the author gives numerous examples of the disasters that follow when a government assumes Parental control of its citizens' morality or of a nation's economy. The Prohibition amendment ended up with more Americans of every sex and age drinking than ever before. The present war on drugs has set off an historical drug orgy clear across America. Former laws against men touching each other yielded 4 times more men in bed together. Laws limiting a woman's decisions regarding her uterus, kill 125 times more women per unit termination. The lesson is that all governmentally Parented moral 'misbehavior' continues, and gets worse, until the government Parenting stops. When governments try to Parent the economy by running and controlling it, the economy always goes straight to hell, according to Smith. The Child in the Voting Booth is often funny, frequently alarming, and always sobering. As an added bonus Dr. Smith shares with you what your neighbors are doing in the bedroom... and in the alley out behind the house. Dr. Smith is a licensed psychologist who formerly taught Transactional Analysis to hundreds of supervisory and management level personnel in the District of Columbia Government. He also practiced Transactional Analytical therapy with numerous psychotherapy groups in the District's Mental Health Administration. After receiving his Ph.D. in physiological psychology at the University of Texas, he taught in the Psychology Department at the State University of New York in Courtland. He then became a Senior Research Scientist at American University's Center for Research in Social Systems, before receiving a grant from the National Institutes of Health to head up research at the District Government's 600 bed Rehabilitation Center for Alcoholics. He is now in private practice as a research consultant. He lives on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland with four friends and his lobster, Ralph.