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Adult Supervision Required - (Families in Focus) by Markella B Rutherford (Paperback)

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  • Adult Supervision Required considers the contradictory ways in which contemporary American culture has imagined individual autonomy for parents and children.
  • About the Author: MARKELLA B. RUTHERFORD is an associate professor of sociology at Wellesley College.
  • 226 Pages
  • Family + Relationships, Parenting
  • Series Name: Families in Focus

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Adult Supervision Required considers the contradictory ways in which contemporary American culture has imagined individual autonomy for parents and children. Using popular parenting advice literature as a springboard for a broader sociological analysis of the American family, Markella B. Rutherford explores how our increasingly psychological conception of the family might be jeopardizing our appreciation for parents' and children's public lives and civil liberties.



Book Synopsis



Adult Supervision Required considers the contradictory ways in which contemporary American culture has imagined individual autonomy for parents and children. In many ways, today's parents and children have more freedom than ever before. There is widespread respect for children's autonomy as distinct individuals, and a broad range of parenting styles are flourishing. Yet it may also be fair to say that there is an unprecedented fear of children's and parents' freedom. Dread about Amber Alerts and "stranger danger" have put an end to the unsupervised outdoor play enjoyed by earlier generations of suburban kids. Similarly, fear of bad parenting has not only given rise to a cottage industry of advice books for anxious parents, but has also granted state agencies greater power to police the family.

Using popular parenting advice literature as a springboard for a broader sociological analysis of the American family, Markella B. Rutherford explores how our increasingly psychological conception of the family might be jeopardizing our appreciation for parents' and children's public lives and civil liberties.



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"Markella Rutherford provides a skillful sociological analysis of the changing dynamics of parenting in the U.S. context, demonstrating how the study of parenting can inform key social questions and problems in novel ways."--Daniel Thomas Cook "Department of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University-Camden" (6/1/2011 12:00:00 AM)

"Rutherford surveys changes in the culture of parenting in the U.S. over the course of the 20th century by analyzing the concerns of parents together with advice available to them in popular magazines between 1910 and 2009. She further supplements this analysis with intensive, open-ended interviews of 30 contemporary parents. Her focus is on supervision, freedom, and constraint. Drawing on relevant sociological theory, the author provides an interesting analysis of changing U.S. cultural norms in an important area of life. Recommended."-- "Choice" (4/1/2012 12:00:00 AM)



About the Author



MARKELLA B. RUTHERFORD is an associate professor of sociology at Wellesley College.

Dimensions (Overall): 9.0 Inches (H) x 6.0 Inches (W) x .52 Inches (D)
Weight: .74 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 226
Series Title: Families in Focus
Genre: Family + Relationships
Sub-Genre: Parenting
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Theme: General
Format: Paperback
Author: Markella B Rutherford
Language: English
Street Date: March 14, 2013
TCIN: 91171425
UPC: 9780813561134
Item Number (DPCI): 247-50-0933
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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