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Adult Supervision Required : Private Freedom and Public Constraints for Parents and Children

Adult Supervision Required considers the contradictory ways in which contemporary American culture has imagined individual autonomy for parents and children. Using popular parenting advice literature as a springboard for a broader sociological analysis of the American family, Markella B. Rutherford...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Rutherford, Markella B.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Take it with a grain of salt : how parents encounter experts and advice
  • Seen and heard : children's growing freedom at home
  • Keeping tabs on kids : children's shrinking public autonomy
  • Mixed messages about responsibility : children's duties and the work of parenting
  • Psychology's child : emotional autonomy and the privatization of the self
  • Conclusion.