num_pages: 218
description: 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.
language: English
title: Home-Alone America: Why Today's Kids Are Overmedicated, Overweight, and More Troubled Than Ever Before
titlecomplete: Home-Alone America: Why Today's Kids Are Overmedicated, Overweight, and More Troubled Than Ever Before
genres: Cultural, Sociology, Parenting, Psychology, Family, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 124
publisher: Sentinel Trade