Argues that divorce rates, career-oriented families, and unhealthy parenting practices are contributing to such childhood problems as obesity and mental illness, and calls for more active parent participation in child care.
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The author reopens the politically incorrect question of just how much children need their parents, especially their mothers. She contends that absent parents--and children who feel like just another chore to be outsourced--are the common denominator of recent epidemics among yo…
Using hard data assembled over years of research, Mary Eberstadt empirically demonstrates the hard truth that many of us are reluctant to admit: children without a stay-at-home mother are far more likely to grow up with higher rates of obesity, learning disabilities, teen pregna…
Why are there so many troubled kids these days, diagnosed with learning disabilities or behavioral problems? Why is child obesity out of control? Why are teenagers contracting herpes and other sexually transmitted diseases at unprecedented rates? In [this book, the author] offer…
The author reopens the politically incorrect question of just how much children need their parents, especially their mothers. She contends that absent parents--and children who feel like just another chore to be outsourced--are the common denominator of recent epidemics among yo…
The author reopens the politically incorrect question of just how much children need their parents, especially their mothers. She contends that absent parents--and children who feel like just another chore to be outsourced--are the common denominator of recent epidemics among yo…
The author reopens the politically incorrect question of just how much children need their parents, especially their mothers. She contends that absent parents--and children who feel like just another chore to be outsourced--are the common denominator of recent epidemics among yo…
The author reopens the politically incorrect question of just how much children need their parents, especially their mothers. She contends that absent parents--and children who feel like just another chore to be outsourced--are the common denominator of recent epidemics among yo…
In the Philippines, an increase in labor migration has created transnational migrant families, where children grow up apart from one or both parents, forced to work outside the country. This book offers a look at the lives of the children in these families; the impact of distanc…
