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Title Childhood lost : how American culture is failing our kids / edited by Sharna Olfman
Published Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2005

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Description xiv, 226 pages ; 25 cm
Series Childhood in America
Childhood in America.
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
Summary "In this book, authors from across disciplines focus their attention on current American culture and its devastating effects on children. Edited by clinical psychologist Sharna Olfman, ten essays by some of today's best-known child experts present a look at the results of accepted social norms."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Mass media and children -- United States.
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.
Author Olfman, Sharna.
LC no. 2004028036
ISBN 0275981398 alkaline paper