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In the Crosshairs |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Robert R. Selle |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1999 |
| Size: 2,077 Words, 13,767 Characters |
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THE WAR AGAINST PARENTS
What We Can Do for America's Beleaguered Moms and Dads
Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West
New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1998
320 pp., $24.00
Parenting is under siege in America today.
From the federal "marriage tax" to family-unfriendly workplaces, from the lure of easy divorce to the pornography-pocked Internet, it's clear that Americans live in a country that makes being a parent increasingly difficult.
More and more, mothers and fathers in today's fast-paced society feel they are like taffy that is pulled and stretched this way and that by forces beyond their control.
Workers seem to be putting in more overtime than ever before, which inexorably pries them apart from their children. That Saturday morning stint a few years back to put t...
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...ion of the sixty-two million parents in America reads their book and coalesces--as Hewlett and West hope they will--into a lobbying force akin to the American Association of Retired Persons, many of their proposals could become a reality.
And maybe the costs involved would be worthwhile: After all, it would be paying to renew the institution that literally forges the future of the nation.
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