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The Problem with Parenting - How Raising Children Is Changing Across America (Hardcover)
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The Problem with Parenting - How Raising Children Is Changing Across America (Hardcover)
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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. Family scholarship focuses
predominately on the evolution of family structure and function,
with only passing references to parenting. Researchers who study
parenting, however, invariably regard it as a sociological
phenomenon with complex motivations rooted in such factors as
class, economic instability, and new technologies. This book
examines the relationship between changes to the family and the
emergence of parenting, defined here as a specific mode of
childrearing. It shows how, beginning in the 1970s, the family was
transformed from a social unit that functioned as the primary
institution for raising children into a vehicle for the nurturing
and fulfillment of the self. The book pays special attention to
socialization and describes how the change in our understanding of
parenthood-from a state of being into the distinct activity of
"parenting"-is indicative of a disruption of our ability to
transfer key cultural values and norms from one generation to the
next. 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 with the replacement of a child-centered
ideal with a therapeutic imperative Suggests that parenting is a
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
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