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Title Childhood lost : how American culture is failing our kids / edited by Sharna Olfman.

Imprint Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 FSCC Non-Fiction  306.85 OLF 2005    ---  Available
Description xiv, 226 p. ; 25 cm.
Series Childhood in America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Children -- United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
Children -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Children -- Government policy -- United States.
Family policy -- United States.
Children -- Health and hygiene -- United States.
Added Author Olfman, Sharna.
ISBN 0275981398 (alk. paper)

 
    
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