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The End of American Childhood - A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child (Hardcover)
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The End of American Childhood - A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child (Hardcover)
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The End of American Childhood takes a sweeping look at the history
of American childhood and parenting, from the nation's founding to
the present day. Renowned historian Paula Fass shows how, since the
beginning of the American republic, independence, self-definition,
and individual success have informed Americans' attitudes toward
children. But as parents today hover over every detail of their
children's lives, are the qualities that once made American
childhood special still desired or possible? Placing the
experiences of children and parents against the backdrop of social,
political, and cultural shifts, Fass challenges Americans to
reconnect with the beliefs that set the American understanding of
childhood apart from the rest of the world. Fass examines how freer
relationships between American children and parents transformed the
national culture, altered generational relationships among
immigrants, helped create a new science of child development, and
promoted a revolution in modern schooling. She looks at the
childhoods of icons including Margaret Mead and Ulysses S.
Grant--who, as an eleven-year-old, was in charge of his father's
fields and explored his rural Ohio countryside. Fass also features
less well-known children like ten-year-old Rose Cohen, who worked
in the drudgery of nineteenth-century factories. Bringing readers
into the present, Fass argues that current American conditions and
policies have made adolescence socially irrelevant and altered
children's road to maturity, while parental oversight threatens
children's competence and initiative. Showing how American
parenting has been firmly linked to historical changes, The End of
American Childhood considers what implications this might hold for
the nation's future.
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