Childhood lost
Subtitle: how American culture is failing our kids
By: edited by Sharna Olfman.
Contributors: Olfman, Sharna.
Series: Childhood in America
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
Subjects: Children -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Children -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century; Children -- Government policy -- United States; Family policy -- United States; Children -- Health and hygiene -- United States
Description: "In this book, authors from across disciplines focus their attention on current American culture and its devastating effects on children. Edited by clinical psychologist Sharna Olfman, ten essays by some of today's best-known child experts present a look at the results of accepted social norms."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Children's irreducible needs; title: The natural history of childhood / Meredith Small; title: Why parenting matters / Laura E. Berk; title: How American culture is failing our kids; title: The war against parents / Sylvia Ann Hewlett & Cornel West; title: The impact of media violence on developing minds and hearts / Gloria DeGaetano; title: The commercialization of childhood / Susan Linn; title: Big food, big money, big children / Katherine Battle Horgen; title: So sexy so soon : the sexualization of childhood / Diane E. Levin; title: Techno-environmental assaults on childhood in America / Varda Burstyn & Gary Sampson; title: "No child left" : what are schools for in a democratic society? / Peter Sacks; title: Where do the children play? / Sharna Olfman.