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Home-Alone America: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes.(Book Review)
Home-Alone America: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes, by Mary Eberstadt (New York: Sentinel, 2005), 218 pages, hardcover, $25.95. Available from American Opinion Book Services, P.O. Box 8040, Appleton, WI 54912 (plus shipping and handling); by phone at 920-749-3783; or online at www.aobs-store.com.
Widespread mental and behavioral problems among school-age children; near-epidemic levels of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs); escalating levels of obesity and clinical depression--"these poignant facts either did not exist a quarter century ago or were markedly less prevalent than they are now," observes author and stay-home mother Mary Eberstadt. "What is responsible for the specific, novel problems seen in children and teenagers today?"
Eberstadt's easily digestible book examines the evidence that the social pathologies plaguing American youngsters is the result of "the ongoing, massive, and historically unprecedented experiment in family-child separation in which the United States and most other advanced societies are now engaged." Too many children are being sent out of the home to be raised by rented strangers. Too many children have only one parent at home. Too few parents are adequately involved in the lives of their children.
The author recognizes that every family situation is different. "The purpose ...
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- Magazine article from: National Review Blyth, Myrna December 13, 2004 700+ words
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- Hoover Fellow Mary Eberstadt Turns Spotlight onto Mental Problems, Behavioral...
- Press release article from: Business Wire December 15, 2004 700+ words
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- Feral and furious; Teenagers alone.
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) November 13, 2004 700+ words
...She blames the rise of day care and of empty homes for rising...Eberstadt argues, starts in day care. Deposited, by working...America: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Wonder Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes. By Mary Eberstadt.
- Tilting for the children; Questioning the priorities of working parents.(OPED)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times December 2, 2004 700+ words
...Home-Alone America: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes," brought all this to mind. The title...ve heard a lot about the pros and cons of day care for the youngest children, we haven't...
- Working mothers, divorce blamed for children's problems.
- Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) December 17, 2004 700+ words
...offsprings' lives. The result, says Mary Eberstadt's "Home Alone America: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and other Parent Substitutes," is a generation that is obese, angry, overmedicated, underappreciated and worst of all...
- DAY-CARE DILEMMA: DISEASE CONTROL.(Living Today)
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) October 9, 1986 700+ words
...increase in the number of children in U.S. day-care facilities is presenting new problems in infectious disease control. Many day-care children are exposed to a wide variety...Minnesota Department of Health, an expert on day-care disease. The situation has created...
- DAY CARE AS A BENEFIT BECOMES A NECESSITY CAPITAL DISTRICT EMPLOYERS...
- Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY) March 6, 1988 700+ words
...writer For many employers, providing day-care services to attract and retain workers...Capital District, started offering free day care to its employees four months ago. Midon...work, other employers are grappling with day-care alternatives which will help attract and...
- Minnesota Day-Care Costs Rival College.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News October 13, 2002 700+ words
...12,000 a year, the rising cost of day care in Minnesota has blown past that of many...director of the Greater Minneapolis Day Care Association. The U.S. Department of...stop financial aid office. The cost of day-care centers nationally has increased about...
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