The War Against Parents

It’s interesting to read a policy book a quarter century after it was written. References to “current” policies of the Clinton administration carried to me the language of “contemporary American history” but ultimately showed how enduring and unchanging the problems covered by the authors have been.......more

You can use this book to fire yourself up before you attend a feisty school board meeting. Or you can just read it to make you want to crawl back in bed and hide under the covers. Either way, it offers a lot of its information in percentages, i.e. "90% of poor children don't get x, y and z" or "78%......more

A bit unnerving in its exposure of structural causes of very personal difficulties, but as a sociologist, I was grateful to have this knowledge in my toolbox. Especially since I consider myself a potential parent with loads to learn.......more

Super depressing but informative read about the state of American families. However the authors comes to some harmful conclusions and recommendations about keeping abusive families and marriages together, since this predates all the narcissism content......more

Incisive analysis from Dr. Cornell West and Sylvia Ann Hewlett. good suggestions for activism at the end.......more