The Problem with Parenting: How Raising Children Is Changing across America Contributor(s): McDermott, Nancy (Author) |
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ISBN: 1440853185 ISBN-13: 9781440853180 Publisher: Praeger OUR PRICE: $64.35 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2020 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Marriage & Family - Family & Relationships | Babysitting, Day Care & Child Care - Family & Relationships | Parenting - General |
Dewey: 306.874 |
LCCN: 2020012197 |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.4" (1.10 lbs) 208 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Family |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Family scholarship focuses predominately on the evolution of family structure and function, with only passing references to parenting. Researchers who study parenting, however, invariably regard it as a sociological phenomenon with complex motivations rooted in such factors as class, economic instability, and new technologies. This book examines the relationship between changes to the family and the emergence of parenting, defined here as a specific mode of childrearing. It shows how, beginning in the 1970s, the family was transformed from a social unit that functioned as the primary institution for raising children into a vehicle for the nurturing and fulfillment of the self. The book pays special attention to socialization and describes how the change in our understanding of parenthood--from a state of being into the distinct activity of parenting--is indicative of a disruption of our ability to transfer key cultural values and norms from one generation to the next. |