Raising generation Rx
Subtitle: mothering kids with invisible disabilities in an age of inequality
By: Linda M. Blum
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
ISBN-13: 9781479891870; 9781479871544
Subjects: Parents of children with disabilities; Parents of attention-deficit-disordered children; Mother and child; Mothers of children with disabilities
Description: Some 22 percent of American children today have some form of disability. In this highly important book, Linda Blum plunges us into the world of their worried mothers, deciphering labels and pills, fending off stigma, tirelessly advocating for their children. Married or alone, affluent or poor, such mothers often feel blamed and too rarely in the presence of real help. A carefully researched and deeply sensitive portrait of mothers on the Rx frontier.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 285- 302) and index.
Table of contents: title: Mother-Child Troubles, Past and Present; title: "Welcome to Your Child's Brain": Mothers Managing Dense Bureaucracies, Medications, and Stigma; title: "The Multimillion-Dollar Child": Raising Kids with Invisible Disabilities in the Context of Privilege; title: "I Think I Have to Advocate Five Thousand Times Harder!": Single Mothers in the Age of Neuroscience; title: En-gendering the Medicalized Child; title: "A Strange Coincidence": Race-ing Disordered Children; title: Mothers, Children, and Families in a Precarious Time.