Taking Parenting Public

by Hewlett, Sylvia Ann; Rankin, Nancy; West, Cornel; Aird, Enola G. (CON); Carlson, Allan C. (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780742521100
• ISBN10: 0742521109
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

Taking Parenting Public makes a compelling case that parenting has become dangerously undervalued in America today. It calls for a new investment--both personal and public--into the work of raising children and argues that we are all stockholders

Table of Contents

List of Boxes, Figures, and Tables	ix
Acknowledgments	xiii
Preface: The Challenge Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West	xv
Introduction	1	(12)
Nancy Rankin
Part One: The Cultural Marketplace
On Rekindling a Spirit of ``Home Training'': A Mother's Notes from the Front	13	(16)
Enola G. Aird
Empty Parenthood: The Loss of Parental Authority in the Postmodern Family	29	(16)
David Elkind
From Father Knows Best to The Simpsons---On TV, Parenting Has Lost Its Halo	45	(14)
Bernice Kanner
Part Two: The Economic Marketplace
The Economic Status of Parents in Postwar America	59	(24)
Edward N. Wolff
Time Crunch among American Parents	83	(20)
Juliet B. Schor
Low-Income Parents and the Time Famine	103	(16)
S. Jody Heymann
Part Three: The Political Marketplace
Political Trends among American Parents: The 1950s to 1996	119	(20)
Ruy Teixeira
Taxes and the Family: A Conservative Perspective	139	(16)
Allan C. Carlson
Observations on Some Proposals to Help Parents: A Progressive Perspective	155	(20)
William A. Galston
Back to the Future: A GI Bill for the Twenty-First Century	175	(34)
Peter Winn
Part Four: Building Public Will and Political Power to Help Parents
The Paths from Here	209	(10)
Raymond Seidelman
What It Will Take to Build a Family-Friendly America	219	(16)
Theda Skocpol
The Emerging Fatherhood Movement: Making Room for Daddy	235	(16)
Wade F. Horn
The Parent Vote	251	(14)
Nancy Rankin
Fixing Social Insecurity: A Proposal to Finance Parenthood	265	(10)
Nancy Rankin
Conclusion
Taking Parenting Public	275	(10)
Ruth A. Wooden
Index	285	(6)
About the Contributors	291