description: From the vogue for nubile models to the explosion in the juvenile crime rate, this modern classic of social history and media traces the precipitous decline of childhood in America today-and the corresponding threat to the notion of adulthood. Deftly marshaling a vast array of historical and demographic research, Neil Postman suggests that childhood is a relatively recent invention, which came into being as the new medium of print imposed divisions between children and adults. But now these divisions are eroding under the barrage of television, which turns the adult secrets of sex and violence into popular entertainment and pitches both news and advertising at the intellectual level of ten-year olds.
language: English
title: Disappearance of Childhood
titlecomplete: Disappearance of Childhood
genres: Education, Society, Psychology, Parenting, Philosophy, History, Technology, Cultural, Nonfiction, Sociology
ratings_count: 1737
publisher: W.H. Allen