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Childhood lost : how American culture is failing our kids
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Childhood lost : how American culture is failing our kids

Author: Sharna Olfman
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Praeger Publishers, 2005.
Series: Childhood in America
Edition/Format: Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Sharna Olfman
ISBN: 0275981398 9780275981396
OCLC Number: 57168331
Description: xiv, 226 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Children's irreducible needs. The natural history of childhood / Meredith F. Small -- Why parenting matters / Laura E. Berk -- How American culture is failing our kids -- The war against parents / Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West -- The impact of media violence on developing minds and hearts / Gloria DeGaetano -- The commercialization of childhood / Susan Linn -- Big food, big money, big children / Katherine Battle Horgen -- So sexy so soon : the sexualization of childhood / Diane E. Levin -- Techno-environmental assaults on childhood in America / Varda Burstyn and Gary Sampson -- "No child left" : what are schools for in a democratic society? / Peter Sacks -- Where do the children play? / Sharna Olfman.
Series Title: Childhood in America
Responsibility: edited by Sharna Olfman.
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