| Series |
Families in focus
Families in focus. ^A1063674
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| 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. |
| Abstract |
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 explores how our increasingly psychological conception of the family might be jeopardizing our appreciation for parents' and children's public lives and civil liberties.--[book jacket] |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2011001041 |
| ISBN | 9780813551494 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0813551498 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
