Adult Supervision Required considers the contradictory ways in which contemporary American culture has imagined individual autonomy for parents and children. Using popular parenting advice literature as a springboard for a broader sociological analysis of the American family, Markella B. Rutherford explores how our increasingly psychological conception of the family might be jeopardizing our appreciation for parents & rsquo; and children & rsquo;s public lives and civil liberties.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Take it with a grain of salt : how parents encounter experts and advice -- Seen and heard : children's growing freedom at home -- Keeping tabs on kids : children's shrinking public autonomy -- Mixed messages about responsibility : children's duties and the work of parenting -- Psychology's child : emotional autonomy and the privatization of the self -- Conclusion.
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