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Liberation's Children

Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age

Autor: Kay S. Hymowitz

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Editura: Ivan R Dee, Inc

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What is life like for children coming of age in an era after feminism, after the sexual revolution?...

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Autor

Kay S. Hymowitz

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2003

Pagini

224

EAN

9781566634953

ISBN

1566634954

Enbook ID

05082729

Editura

Ivan R Dee, Inc

Greutate

363

Dimensiuni

182 x 221 x 23

Descriere completă

What is life like for children coming of age in an era after feminism, after the sexual revolution? Kay Hymowitz explores the predicament of a generation growing up in a world where adults lavish them with Tommy Hilfigers, Gameboys, and Disneyland vacations but don't know how to provide them with the ordinary truths that give life meaning. Without a coherent moral and intellectual order to pass on to the young, Ms. Hymowitz argues, parents, teachers, school principals, the media, and the child-rearing experts know only how to celebrate the individual child, "empowering" him to find his own way even as MTV beckons. As Liberation's Children shows, some young people flounder in this spiritual and imaginative void. They curse out teachers and coaches; they try too much too soon; they turn from children into tweens by the time they are eight, and into jaded adults by the time they are fourteen. They become the malcontents of suburban communities. Meanwhile many others eagerly latch on to the one value that seems to cause their elders no ambivalence or embarrassment: personal achievement. As babies they listen to Mozart tapes and use lapware; as toddlers they watch Sesame Street and begin music lessons. By the time they are of school age, they are initiates in the religion of "ecstatic capitalism"-child development has become career preparation. In sharply drawn analyses which first appeared in City Journal, Ms. Hymowitz takes the measure of a young generation afflicted with a loss of deep connection, civility, and moral clarity, as well as a depleted vision of the human predicament.