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008			150911s2016 njua b 001 0 eng
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035			_a(OCoLC)921240006 _z(OCoLC)919479484 _z(OCoLC)951004853 _z(OCoLC)952989432
037			_bPrinceton Univ Pr, C/O Perseus Distribution 210 American Dr, Jackson, TN, USA, 38301 _nSAN 631-760X
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050	0	0	_aHQ 535 _b.F37 2016
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100	1		_aFass, Paula S., _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe end of American childhood : _ba history of parenting from life on the frontier to the managed child / _cPaula S. Fass.
264		1	_aPrinceton : _bPrinceton University Press, _c2016
300			_axi, 334 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
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"-- _cProvided by publisher.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_gIntroduction: _tYoung in America -- _g1. _tChildhood and parenting in the new republic: Sowing the seeds of independence, 1800-1860 -- _g2. _tChildren adrift: Responding to crisis, 1850-1890 -- _g3. _tWhat mother needs to know: The new science of childhood, 1890-1940 -- _g4. _tA wider world: Adolescence, immigration, and schooling, 1920-1960 -- _g5. _tAll our children: Race, rebellion, and social change, 1950-1990 -- _g6. _tWhat's the matter with kids today? -- _gEpilogue.
650		0	_aFamilies _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aParenting _zUnited States _xHistory.
650		0	_aChildren _zUnited States _xHistory.
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