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

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rutherford, Markella B.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Series:Families in focus series.
Subjects:
Parenting > Social aspects > United States.
Child rearing > United States.
Parent and child > United States.
Mass media and families > United States.
Rôle parental > Aspect social > États-Unis.
Éducation des enfants > États-Unis.
Parents et enfants > États-Unis.
Médias et familles > États-Unis.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
Child rearing
Mass media and families
Parent and child
Parenting > Social aspects
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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