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Missing moms, kids in crisis.(REVIEW)(Home-Alone America: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes)(Book Review)
MARY EBERSTADT'S pull-no-punches book Home-Alone America: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes [dagger] is bound to stir memories for those of us who have been on the front lines of the family debates. In my own case, there are certain images and old conversations that really bring the debate home. I recall a little boy, age three, whose mother taught full time at the university where I had been invited to lecture. His father taught at another university over 500 miles away, so he saw his dad only on weekends. As it happened, I was a guest of the family, and witnessed firsthand a sad, but all too widespread, spectacle. The boy was in ...
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