The Problem with Parenting: How Raising Children Is Changing Across America

The Problem with Parenting serves as an essential guide to the recent origins and current excesses of American parenting for students, parents, and policy makers interested in the changing role of the family in childrearing. * Suggests that families are no longer able to reliably socialize children * Proposes that the reason the family has ceased to function as a socializing institution has less to do with changes in structure than the replacement of a child-centered ideal with a therapeutic imperative * Suggests that parenting is new mode of childrearing that arose in the absence of a reliable institution for childrearing * Argues that parenting culture itself is a response to the experience of the breakdown in socialization that occurred that began in the 1970s * Makes the case for a renewal of a societal commitment to children and the rising generation

• | Author: Nancy A. McDermott
• | Publisher: Praeger
• | Publication Date: August 31, 2020
• | Number of Pages: 212 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1440853185
• | ISBN-13: 9781440853180