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Taking Parenting Public
The Case for a New Social Movement
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2002
Summary
Taking Parenting Public makes a compelling case that parenting has become dangerously undervalued in America today. It calls for a new investment—both personal and public—into the work of raising children and argues that we are all 'stockholders' in the next generation. With a foreword by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West, Taking Parenting Public crosses boundaries to bring together thinkers from diverse fields spanning the political spectrum. It features contributions from distinguished experts in economics, political science, public policy, child development, public health, history, and the media. While recent books have focused on working mothers or absent fathers, Taking Parenting Public is the first volume to take a comprehensive look at the common struggles of parents. These essays go beyond the usual calls for more and better child care and other strategies of 'parent replacement' to offer fresh ideas for 'parent replenishment,' ways of putting mothers and fathers back into the lives of their children not only as economic providers, but also as emotional and moral providers. For more information visit the National Parenting Association Web site.
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Copyright year
2002
ISBN-Print
978-0-7425-2111-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-4616-4386-9
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
295
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
List of Boxes, Figures, and Tables No access
Acknowledgments No access
Preface: The Challenge Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West No access
Introduction Nancy Rankin No access Pages 1 - 10
1 On Rekindling a Spirit of "Home Training": A Mother's Notes from the Front Enola G. Aird No access
2 Empty Parenthood: The Loss of Parental Authority in the Postmodern Family David Elkind No access
3 From Father Knows Best to The Simpsons―On TV, Parenting Has Lost Its Halo Bernice Kanner No access
4 The Economic Status of Parents in Postwar America Edward N. Wolff No access
5 Time Crunch among American Parents Juliet B. Schor No access
6 Low-Income Parents and the Time Famine S. Jody Heymann No access
7 Political Trends among American Parents: The 1950s to 1996 Ruy Teixeira No access
8 Taxes and the Family: A Conservative Perspective Allan C. Carlson No access
9 Observations on Some Proposals to Help Parents: A Progressive Perspective William A. Galston No access
10 Back to the Future: A GI Bill for the Twenty-First Century Peter Winn No access
11 The Paths from Here Raymond Seidelman No access
12 What It Will Take to Build a Family-Friendly America Theda Skocpol No access
13 The Emerging Fatherhood Movement: Making Roomfor Daddy Wade F. Horn No access
14 The Parent Vote Nancy Rankin No access
15 Fixing Social Insecurity: A Proposal to Finance Parenthood Nancy Rankin No access
16 Taking Parenting Public Ruth A. Wooden No access
