Addressing a workshop on raising happy children, the experts advised parents to have a structured family time and exclusive mean time between each child.
"As there are lesser child-parents interaction, the children look for seekouts in terms of friendship, drugs and other indulgences," said John.
Nitin Pandey, a child education expert at parentune.com - a support platform for the urban parents, said: "During our time, we used to have grandparents who were always there but it is not so these days and hence the child is devoid of affection."