Home-alone America : the hidden toll of day care, behavioral drugs, and other parent substitutes /

The author reopens the politically incorrect question of just how much children need their parents, especially their mothers. She contends that absent parents--and children who feel like just another chore to be outsourced--are the common denominator of recent epidemics among young people, including...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Eberstadt, Mary
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : Sentinel, 2004.
Subjects:	Children of working mothers > United States. Parenting > United States. Parental deprivation > United States.
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of Contents:

The real trouble with day care
The furious child problem
Why Dick and Jane are fat
The mental health catastrophe
Wonder drugs and double standards
"Ozzie and Harriet, come back!" : the primal scream of teenage music
The ravages of "responsible" teenage sex
Specialty boarding schools, tough love or ultimate outsourcing?
Conclusion: Beyond the blame game.