Childhood lost : how American culture is failing our kids / edited by Sharna Olfman. - Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2005. - xiv, 226 p. ; 25 cm. - Childhood in America .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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Children--Social conditions--United States--20th century.
Children--Social conditions--United States--21st century.
Children--Government policy--United States.
Family policy--United States.
Children--Health and hygiene--United States.

HQ792.U5 / C41995 2005

306.85/0973