Home-Alone America: Why Today's Kids Are Overmedicated, Overweight, and More Troubled Than Ever Before - Softcover

Eberstadt, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1595230157 ISBN 13: 9781595230157

Publisher: Sentinel Trade, 2005

Synopsis

Argues that modern divorce rates, career-oriented families, and unhealthy parenting practices are contributing to such childhood problems as obesity, risky sexual behaviors, and mental illness, drawing on a range of medical and social science literature, as well as popular culture, to identify a need for more active parent participation in child care. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author

Mary Eberstadt works from home as a research fellow for Stanford University's Hoover Institution and is a consulting editor to Policy Review. She and her husband have four children and live in Washington, D.C.

From the Inside Flap

A few decades ago, most families were intact. But today, too many kids now feel like just another chore to be outsourced--dropped off at daycare, handed over to a nanny, plopped in front of a TV or the Internet. Mary Eberstadt offers hard data proving that absent parents are the common denominator of many recent epidemics, including obesity, STDs, attention deficit disorder, and the use of psychiatric medications on even very young children. Have we already reached a tipping point in this society of unattended children and teenagers? And if so, what does that mean for our future?

Edition details

• Publisher: Sentinel Trade
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1595230157
• ISBN 13: 9781595230157
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 218