Hymowitz, Kay S. Liberation's Children: Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age

Adolescence, Spring, 2004

HYMOWITZ, Kay S. Liberation's Children: Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age. Chicago, IL: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 2003. 224pp. $24.95 (h).

What is life like for children coming of age in an era after feminism, after the sexual revolution? In Liberation's Children, Kay S. Hymowitz explores the predicament of a generation growing up in a world where adults lavish them with material possessions but do not know how to provide them with the ordinary truths that give life meaning. In sharply drawn analyses which first appeared in City Journal, Hymowitz takes the measure of a young generation afflicted with a loss of deep connection, civility, and moral clarity.