New Book - Childhood Lost: How American Culture is Failing Our Kids

Childhood Lost: How American Culture is Failing Our Kids / edited by Sharna Olfman
Praeger Publishers, 2005
Call Number: HQ792.U5 C41995 2005 (Main Collection)

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A timely book and a call to action written by nationally known childhood experts. Contents includes:

Children's irreducible needs -- The natural history of childhood / Meredith Small -- Why parenting matters / Laura Berk -- How American culture is failing our kids -- The war against parents / Sylvia Ann Hewlett & Cornel West -- The impact of media violence on developing minds and hearts / Gloria DeGaetano -- Childhood : the fastest growing market segment / Susan Linn -- Big food, big money, big children / Katherine Battle Horgen -- So sexy so soon : the sexualization of childhood / Diane Levin -- Techno-environmental assaults on childhood in America / Varda Burstyn & Gary Sampson -- "No child left" : what are schools for in a democratic society? / Peter Sacks -- Where do the children play? / Sharna Olfman.

More details can be found at the Greenwood Publishing web site.