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  title info:
    title: Anxious parents
    sub title: a history of modern childrearing in America
  name:
    name part: Stearns, Peter N.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: NetLibrary, Inc
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2003
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: remote
    extent: xi, 251 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw a dramatic shift in the role of children in American society and families. No longer necessary for labor, children became economic liabilities and twentieth-century parents exhibited a new level of anxiety concerning the welfare of their children and their own ability to parent effectively. What caused this shift in the ways parenting and childhood were experienced and perceived? Why, at a time of relative ease and prosperity, do parents continue to grapple with uncertainty and with unreasonable expectations of both themselves and their children? Peter N. Stearns explains this phenomenon by examining the new issues the twentieth century brought to bear on families. Surveying popular media, "expert" childrearing manuals, and newspapers and journals published throughout the century, Stearns shows how schooling, physical and emotional vulnerability and the rise in influence of commercialism became primary concerns for parents. The result, Stearns shows, is that contemporary parents have come to believe that they are participating in a culture of neglect and diminishing standards. Anxious parents: a modern history of childrearing in America shows the reasons for this belief through an historic examination of modern parenting.
  table of contents: Anxious parents : a 20th-century history -- The vulnerable child -- Discipline -- All are above average : children at school -- Work and chores : do I have to? -- I'm bored : the two faces of entertainment -- Conclusion : the impact of anxiety.
  note: Peter N. Stearns.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2005. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Child rearing
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Parenting
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Parent and child
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  subject:
    topic: Child development
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
    temporal: 20th century
  classification: HQ769 .S76 2003eb
  classification: 649/.1/0973
  related item:
    identifier: (DLC) 2002152802
    identifier: (OCoLC)50920712
  identifier: 1417588381 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 050408
    record change date: 20190326103729.0
    record identifier: in00002108623