Home-alone America : the hidden toll of day care, behavioral drugs, and other parent substitutes / Mary Eberstadt.
Eberstadt, Mary.
2004
HQ777.6 .E24 2004 (Mapit)
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Title Home-alone America : the hidden toll of day care, behavioral drugs, and other parent substitutes / Mary Eberstadt.
Author Eberstadt, Mary.
ISBN 1595230041
Imprint New York : Sentinel, 2004.
Language English
Description xx, 218 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number HQ777.6 .E24 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.874
Summary 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 obesity, STDs, behavioral problems such as attention deficit disorder, and the use of psychiatric medication in even very young children; and asks whether this trend has already reached a tipping point in American society.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-208) and index.
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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.

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