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

Author
Rutherford, Markella B.
Published
Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource (227 pages).
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Language Note
English.
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.
Summary
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.
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ISBN
9780813552217 (electronic bk.)
0813552214 (electronic bk.)
9780813551494
0813551498
1283491982
9781283491983
9786613491985
6613491985
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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