Title: The war against parents
First published: 1998
Description: A white woman and a black man come together to address the burning social issue of our time: the virtual abandonment of parents - poor and middle class - by our business, political, and cultural elites. Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West call for a Parents' Bill of Rights that gives new value and dignity to the parental role and restores our nation's commitment to the well-being of children. Hewlett and West show how for thirty years big business, government, and the wider culture have waged a silent war against parents. We live in a nation where market work, centered on profits and greed, increasingly crowds out nonmarket work, centered on commitment and care.

In calling for a Parents' Bill of Rights, the authors seek to unite America's 62 million parents behind an agenda that spans the divides of race, gender, and class.
Subjects: Parenting, Child welfare, Family policy, Eltern, Parent and child, Violence on television, Violence in mass media, Popular culture, Child rearing, Children and adults, Teenagers, Youth, Fathers, Poor, History, Biography, Histoire, Biographies
Places: United States
LC classification: HQ755.8 .H49 1998