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028			_aInternational Book Distributors _bDarya Ganj, New Delhi-110002 _c114586 _d07.11.2019
082			_223 _a306.850973 FAS
100			_aFass, Paula S.
245			_a The end of American childhood _b: a history of parenting from life on the frontier to the managed child _cFass, Paula S.
260			_aPrinceton _b: Princeton University Press _c2016
300			_axi, 334 pages : illustrations _c ; 24 cm
365			_b1750
505			_a Introduction: Young in America -- 1. Childhood and parenting in the new republic: Sowing the seeds of independence, 1800-1860 -- 2. Children adrift: Responding to crisis, 1850-1890 -- 3. What mother needs to know: The new science of childhood, 1890-1940 -- 4. A wider world: Adolescence, immigration, and schooling, 1920-1960 -- 5. All our children: Race, rebellion, and social change, 1950-1990 -- 6. What's the matter with kids today? -- Epilogue.
520			_a"The End of American Childhood takes a sweeping look at the history of American childhood and parenting, from the nation's founding to the present day. Renowned historian Paula Fass shows how, since the beginning of the American republic, independence, self-definition, and individual success have informed Americans' attitudes toward children. But as parents today hover over every detail of their children's lives, are the qualities that once made American childhood special still desired or possible? Placing the experiences of children and parents against the backdrop of social, political, and cultural shifts, Fass challenges Americans to reconnect with the beliefs that set the American understanding of childhood apart from the rest of the world. Fass examines how freer relationships between American children and parents transformed the national culture, altered generational relationships among immigrants, helped create a new science of child development, and promoted a revolution in modern schooling. She looks at the childhoods of icons including Margaret Mead and Ulysses S. Grant--who as an eleven-year-old, was in charge of his father's fields and explored his rural Ohio countryside. Fass also features less well-known children like ten-year-old Rose Cohen, who worked in the drudgery of nineteenth-century factories. Bringing readers into the present, Fass argues that current American conditions and policies have made adolescence socially irrelevant and altered children's road to maturity, while parental oversight threatens children's competence and initiative. Showing how American parenting has been firmly linked to historical changes, The End of American Childhood considers what implications this might hold for the nation's future"--
650			_aFamilies -- United States -- History.
650			_aParenting -- United States -- History.
650			_aChildren -- United States -- History.
942			_cBOOK