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Our Endangered Children: Growing Up in a Changing World

Our Endangered Children: Growing Up in a Changing World

Vance Packard
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Examines America's child-rearing institutions and cultural trends affecting the young, such as divorce and families in which both parents work, identifies their potentially harmful affects, and offers specific advice for creating a nurturing environment.

Contents:

Children at risk
Growing up in our anti-child culture
What it means to be young today
Symptoms of a society in trouble with its children
The rise of sentiment against children
The harsh entry into life
The banning of children
Growing up isolated
Schools that upset children
Assaults on children's minds and bodies
Children whose parents work
Life in homes where mothers work
How important is mother to a child's development?
The dilemmas of day-care
Who watches school-agers when school is out?
Children whose parents split
How divorce affects children
Children as prizes or pawns in court
Who really should get the children?
Persisting problems with split parents
Better ways to handle family disruption
Major new patterns of family life
Growing up in a one-parent household
Pupils from homes with one parent
The shift to a melded family
Experiments in family forms
Some concluding thoughts
Nine adult skills that help children thrive
A more congenial environment for children.
Language
English
Pages
385
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Release
January 01, 1983
ISBN
0316687510
ISBN 13
9780316687515

Our Endangered Children: Growing Up in a Changing World

Vance Packard
4/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Examines America's child-rearing institutions and cultural trends affecting the young, such as divorce and families in which both parents work, identifies their potentially harmful affects, and offers specific advice for creating a nurturing environment.

Contents:

Children at risk
Growing up in our anti-child culture
What it means to be young today
Symptoms of a society in trouble with its children
The rise of sentiment against children
The harsh entry into life
The banning of children
Growing up isolated
Schools that upset children
Assaults on children's minds and bodies
Children whose parents work
Life in homes where mothers work
How important is mother to a child's development?
The dilemmas of day-care
Who watches school-agers when school is out?
Children whose parents split
How divorce affects children
Children as prizes or pawns in court
Who really should get the children?
Persisting problems with split parents
Better ways to handle family disruption
Major new patterns of family life
Growing up in a one-parent household
Pupils from homes with one parent
The shift to a melded family
Experiments in family forms
Some concluding thoughts
Nine adult skills that help children thrive
A more congenial environment for children.
Language
English
Pages
385
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Little Brown and Company
Release
January 01, 1983
ISBN
0316687510
ISBN 13
9780316687515

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