Adult Supervision Required - Private Freedom and Public Constraints for Parents and Children

Informationen zum Autor Rutherford, Markella B Klappentext Adult Supervision Required considers the contradictory ways in which contemporary American culture has imagined individual autonomy for parents and children. Using popular parenting advice literature as a springboard for a broader sociological analysis of the American family, Markella B. Rutherford explores how our increasingly psychological conception of the family might be jeopardising our appreciation for parents' and children's public lives and civil liberties. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1          Take It with a Grain of Salt: How Parents Encounter Experts and Advice2          Seen and Heard: Children’s Growing Freedom at Home3          Keeping Tabs on Kids: Children’s Shrinking Public Autonomy4          Mixed Messages about Responsibility: Children’s Duties and the Work of Parenting5          Psychology’s Child: Emotional Autonomy and the Privatization of the Self6          ConclusionAppendix AAppendix BNotesBibliographyIndex

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• Authors: Markella B Rutherford, Markella B. Rutherford, Markella B. Prof Rutherford
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.03.2013
• EAN: 9780813561134
• ISBN: 978-0-8135-6113-4
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Families in Focus (Paperback); Families in Focus
• Subject: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family