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A few decades ago, most families were intact. Most children came home to a mother who monitored their diets, watched over their social lives and provided the basics in emotional nurturing. But today, most mothers work outside the home and many fathers are unmarried or divorced, often living far away. As a result, too many kids now feel like just another chore to be outsourced - dropped off at daycare, handed over to a nanny, plopped in front of a TV or the Internet.
In Home-Alone America, scholar Mary Eberstadt offers hard data proving that absent parents are the common denominator of many recent epidemics, including obesity, STDs, attention deficit disorder, and the use of psychiatric medications on even very young children.
Eberstadt transcends the rhetoric of the 'mommy wars' by asking a tougher question than that of individual fulfillment: What is the cumulative effect of the modern adult exodus from the home? Have we already reached a tipping point in this society of unattended children and teenagers? And if so, what does that mean for our future?
About the Author
Mary Eberstadt is a fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, and a contributing editor of Policy Review, the Institution's critically-acclaimed journal of conservative thought. She has been published in the Wall Street Journal and Commentary, and was the executive editor of Irving Kristol's National Interest magazine from 1990 to 1998. Eberstadt was a speechwriter for Secretary of State George Schultz, and a special assistant to UN Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick. She graduated Cornell University magna cum laude as a four-year Telluride scholar. She is currently a stay-at-home mother of four children, and is married to Nick Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute.
Home-Alone America: Why Today's Kids Are Overmedicated, Overweight, and More Troubled Than Ever Before,Mary Eberstadt,Sentinel Trade,1595230157,Child Care/Parenting,Child Development,Children's Studies,Family & Relationships,Parent And Child,Parenting - General,Sociology,Sociology - Marriage & Family,Sociology Of Children,Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family
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