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Adult supervision required : private freedom and public constraints for parents and children /

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Adult Supervision Required considers the contradictory ways in which contemporary American culture has imagined individual autonomy for parents and children. Using popular parenting advice literature as a springboard for a broader sociological analysis of the American family, Markella B. Rutherford...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rutherford, Markella B., 1973-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2011]
Series:Families in focus.
Subjects:
Parenting > Social aspects > United States.
Child rearing > United States.
Parent and child > United States.
Mass media and families > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Take it with a grain of salt : how parents encounter experts and advice
  • Seen and heard : children's growing freedom at home
  • Keeping tabs on kids : children's shrinking public autonomy
  • Mixed messages about responsibility : children's duties and the work of parenting
  • Psychology's child : emotional autonomy and the privatization of the self
  • Conclusion.