Home-Alone America Why Today's Kids Are Overmedicated, Overweight, and More Troubled Than Ever Before

by Eberstadt, Mary

• ISBN13: 9781595230157
• ISBN10: 1595230157
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-06
• Publisher: Sentinel

Summary

Argues that modern divorce rates, career-oriented families, and unhealthy parenting practices are contributing to such childhood problems as obesity, risky sexual behaviors, and mental illness, drawing on a range of medical and social science literature, as well as popular culture, to identify a need for more active parent participation in child care. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Author Biography

Mary Eberstadt works from home as a research fellow for Stanford University's Hoover Institution and is a consulting editor to Policy Review. She and her husband have four children and live in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Preface	x
Introduction	xv
1. The Real Trouble with Day Care	1	(22)
2. The Furious Child Problem	23	(16)
3. Why Dick and Jane Are Fat	39	(18)
4. The Mental Health Catastrophe	57	(24)
5. Wonder Drugs and Double Standards	81	(24)
6. "Ozzie and Harriet, Come Back!": The Primal Scream of Teenage Music	105	(18)
7. The Ravages of "Responsible" Teenage Sex	123	(18)
8. Specialty Boarding Schools: Tough Love or Ultimate Outsourcing?	141	(18)
9. Conclusion: Beyond the Blame Game	159	(12)
Epilogue	171	(10)
Notes	181	(18)
Bibliography	199	(10)
Index	209