The family lies at the centre of public debates over work, parenthood, welfare and values - debates that cut across lines of race, politics and class. Aiming to illuminate the central issues surrounding American children, from birth to adolescence, this anthology explores how children have been defined and continuously redefined throughout history ...
Few crimes capture our imagination as completely as child kidnapping. We are both fascinated and revolted, seeing in each victim our own child, in each bereaved parent ourselves, and in each kidnapper a monster striking straight at the heart of the family and our society. Kidnapping is a modern morality play, the innocence of the child in stark ...
This is a book about American education and the various attempts, since the end of the 19th century, to assimilate different ethnic, cultural, racial, and sexual groups into the American way of life. The focus is on American high schools. The first three chapters deal with the ways American public schools absorbed immigrants into the educational ...
This 3-vol. set presents the social and cultural history of childhood from antiquity to the present. Children and Childhood examines this history through articles on education, parenting, child labor, economics, images of childhood, children's literature, play, toys and games, health, physiology, law, the criminal justice system and social ...
Paula S. Fass, a pathbreaker in children's history and the history of education, turns her attention in "Children of a New World" to the impact of globalization on children's lives, both in the United States and on the world stage. Globalization, privatization, the rise of the "work-centered" family, and the triumph of the unregulated market-place ...
Explores the author own past as the daughter of Holocaust survivors to reflect on the nature of history and memory. Through her parents' experiences and the stories they recounted, this title defines her engagement as a historian and used these skills to understand her parents' lives.
Paula S. Fass, a pathbreaker in children's history and the history of education, turns her attention in "Children of a New World" to the impact of globalization on children's lives, both in the United States and on the world stage. Globalization, privatization, the rise of the "work-centered" family, and the triumph of the unregulated market-place ...
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Major Problems in the History of American Families and Children: Documents and Essays
