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Liberation's Children
Kay S. Hymowitz
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Description for Liberation's Children
Hardback. This work provides a description of contemporary American culture - how adults teach it, how children receive it, and how it stamps today's American kids with their unique character. It takes the measure of a culture that leaves children with a loss of deep connection, civility, and moral clarity. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFC; JFSP1; VFX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 182 x 22. Weight in Grams: 363.
What is life like for children coming of age in an era after feminism, after the sexual revolution? Kay Hymowitz explores the predicament of a generation growing up in a world where adults lavish them with Tommy Hilfigers, Gameboys, and Disneyland vacations but don't know how to provide them with the ordinary truths that give life meaning. Without a coherent moral and intellectual order to pass on to the young, Ms. Hymowitz argues, parents, teachers, school principals, the media, and the child-rearing experts know only how to celebrate the individual child, "empowering" him to find his own way even as MTV beckons. As Liberation's Children shows, some young people flounder in this spiritual and imaginative void. They curse out teachers and coaches; they try too much too soon; they turn from children into tweens by the time they are eight, and into jaded adults by the time they are fourteen. They become the malcontents of suburban communities. Meanwhile many others eagerly latch on to the one value that seems to cause their elders no ambivalence or embarrassment: personal achievement. As babies they listen to Mozart tapes and use lapware; as toddlers they watch Sesame Street and begin music lessons. By the time they are of school age, they are initiates in the religion of "ecstatic capitalism"-child development has become career preparation. In sharply drawn analyses which first appeared in City Journal, Ms. Hymowitz takes the measure of a young generation afflicted with a loss of deep connection, civility, and moral clarity, as well as a depleted vision of the human predicament.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Chicago, United States
ISBN
9781566634953
SKU
V9781566634953
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About Kay S. Hymowitz
Kay Hymowitz is the author of Ready or Not: Why Treating Children as Small Adults Endangers Their Future and Ours. She has written for the Wall Street Journal, the New Republic, and the New York Times, and is a contributing editor of City Journal.
Reviews for Liberation's Children
This book is both engaging and brutal as social observation...
Paula S. Fass
The Review of Higher Education
An informed, intelligent and very powerful critique...Written with wit, with pointed examples and with passion. A very important book.
Judith Wallerstein, Ph.D. Adults...should take note of Hymowitz's observations about what 'liberation' has wrought.
William J. Bennett, former U.S. Secretary of Education, author of The Book of Virtues Rewarding...penetrating.
Booklist
One of America's best analysts of child-rearing...fascinating.... Hymowitz is on to some very important truths...a masterpiece.
National Review
Scrupulously points out the all-too-familiar obsession with individual autonomy.
The Weekly Standard
Hymowitz raises difficult questions that should not be ignored, and she presents them with a befitting urgency.... Thought-provoking...
Foreword Reviews
Offers an original and coherent reading of contemporary bewilderment about what our children need....
Times Literary Supplement
A very different set of insights which parents will appreciate.
Bookwatch
Sharply drawn analyses...
Adolescence Magazine
A devastating debunking of fashionable ideas that have brought much frustration and heartache to parents and children alike...It is impossible to summarize the many insights of 'Liberation's Children’. Get a copy of each and discover their sobering message yourself.
Thomas Sowell, Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Capitalism Magazine
Liberation’s Children is a collection of essays that deserves to be knit together into the fabric of a book.
Mark Daims
Human Nature Review
Paula S. Fass
The Review of Higher Education
An informed, intelligent and very powerful critique...Written with wit, with pointed examples and with passion. A very important book.
Judith Wallerstein, Ph.D. Adults...should take note of Hymowitz's observations about what 'liberation' has wrought.
William J. Bennett, former U.S. Secretary of Education, author of The Book of Virtues Rewarding...penetrating.
Booklist
One of America's best analysts of child-rearing...fascinating.... Hymowitz is on to some very important truths...a masterpiece.
National Review
Scrupulously points out the all-too-familiar obsession with individual autonomy.
The Weekly Standard
Hymowitz raises difficult questions that should not be ignored, and she presents them with a befitting urgency.... Thought-provoking...
Foreword Reviews
Offers an original and coherent reading of contemporary bewilderment about what our children need....
Times Literary Supplement
A very different set of insights which parents will appreciate.
Bookwatch
Sharply drawn analyses...
Adolescence Magazine
A devastating debunking of fashionable ideas that have brought much frustration and heartache to parents and children alike...It is impossible to summarize the many insights of 'Liberation's Children’. Get a copy of each and discover their sobering message yourself.
Thomas Sowell, Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University
Capitalism Magazine
Liberation’s Children is a collection of essays that deserves to be knit together into the fabric of a book.
Mark Daims
Human Nature Review