The parenting trap.(Book Review) (book review)
American Prospect, The, May, 2003 by Elliott, Carl
RAISING AMERICA: EXPERTS, PARENTS AND A CENTURY OF ADVICE ABOUT CHILDREN BY ANN HULBERT * ALFRED A. KNOPF * 384 PAGES * $27.50
WE LIVE IN AN AGE OF EXPERTS. OUR newspapers and magazines are filled with advice columns, our best-seller lists with diet manuals and self-help books. We rely on experts to manage our births, plan our vacations, pay our taxes and conduct our burials. Most of all, we depend on experts to manage ourselves. We willingly submit to the advice of clinical psychologists, guidance counselors, social workers, career counselors, probation officers, sex ...
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