Childism
Subtitle: confronting prejudice against children
By: Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 353
ISBN-13: 9780300173116
Subjects: Children; Age discrimination
Description: The author exposes American society's prejudice against its children--from corporal punishment and an uncaring foster care system to the pressure placed on children to support one parent or another in a divorce--and the harm it causes them.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Anatomy of a prejudice; title: Three forms of childism : Anna's story; title: Child abuse and neglect: a study in confusion; title: The politicization of child abuse; title: Mass hysteria and child sexual abuse; title: Forms of childism in families; title: Education and the end of childism.