Taking Parenting Public

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

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

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