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The war against parents : what we can do for America's beleaguered moms and dads / Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West.

Title
  1. The war against parents : what we can do for America's beleaguered moms and dads / Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West.
Published by
  1. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
Author
  1. Hewlett, Sylvia Ann, 1946-

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Additional authors
  1. West, Cornel
Description
  1. xviii, 302 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
  1. A white woman and a black man come together to address the burning social issue of our time: the virtual abandonment of parents - poor and middle class - by our business, political, and cultural elites. Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West call for a Parents' Bill of Rights that gives new value and dignity to the parental role and restores our nation's commitment to the well-being of children. Hewlett and West show how for thirty years big business, government, and the wider culture have waged a silent war against parents. We live in a nation where market work, centered on profits and greed, increasingly crowds out nonmarket work, centered on commitment and care.
  2. In calling for a Parents' Bill of Rights, the authors seek to unite America's 62 million parents behind an agenda that spans the divides of race, gender, and class.
Subject
  1. Poor > United States
  2. Fathers > United States
  3. Youth > United States
  4. Teenagers > United States
  5. Children and adults > United States
  6. Parent and child > United States
  7. Child rearing > United States
  8. Child welfare > United States
  9. Family policy > United States
  10. Parenting > United States
  11. Popular culture > United States
  12. Violence in mass media
  13. Violence on television
Contents
  1. Prologue -- Struggling Parents Then and Now -- The Partnership -- Parents and National Survival -- Waves of Attack -- Managerial Greed and the Collapse of Economic Security -- Government Tilts Against Parents -- A Poisonous Popular Culture -- Fathers Under Siege -- The Disabling of Dads -- Escape Routes: Promise Keepers and the Nation of Islam -- Reweaving the Web of Care -- What Do Parents Want? -- A Parents' Bill of Rights -- Detailed Analysis of Survey Work -- Tables.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-291) and index.
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