Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Child-Rearing in America by Peter N. Stearns

Anxious Parents: A History of Modern Child-Rearing in America

Peter N. Stearns

251 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced

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The nineteenth and twentieth centuries saw a dramatic shift in the role of children in American society and families. No longer necessary for labor, children became economic liabilities and twentieth-century parents exhibited a new level of anxiet...

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