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• Publisher : NYU Press
• File Size : 47,6 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 2024

Anthology of fiction and nonfiction works presenting society's views of children and childrearing practices in the United States from Colonial times to the present.

• Publisher : University of Georgia Press
• File Size : 48,5 Mb
• Release Date : 01 November 2011

Nothing tugs on American heartstrings more than an image of a suffering child. Anna Mae Duane goes back to the nation's violent beginnings to examine how the ideal of childhood

• Publisher : UNC Press Books
• File Size : 32,7 Mb
• Release Date : 27 April 2021

For all that is known about the depth and breadth of African American history, we still understand surprisingly little about the lives of African American children, particularly those affected by

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 51,5 Mb
• Release Date : 09 June 2014

Obesity among American children has reached epidemic proportions. Laura Dawes traces changes in diagnosis, treatment, and popular conceptions of the most serious health problem facing American children today, and makes

• Publisher : Praeger
• File Size : 24,5 Mb
• Release Date : 30 March 2005

Experts from across disciplines join forces here to focus attention on current American culture and the devastating effects it is having on its children. From children developing surprising physical maturity

• Publisher : Harvard University Press
• File Size : 38,6 Mb
• Release Date : 30 April 2006

Like Huck’s raft, the experience of American childhood has been both adventurous and terrifying. For more than three centuries, adults have agonized over raising children while children have followed

• Publisher : McFarland
• File Size : 40,7 Mb
• Release Date : 30 July 2013

At the close of the 19th century, more than 2 million American children under age 16--some as young as 4 or 5--were employed on farms, in mills, canneries, factories, mines and offices,

• Publisher : University of Illinois Press
• File Size : 48,6 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 1985

Growing Up in America offers substantial and dramatic evidence that the history of childhood has come of age. Its authors demonstrate the breadth and depth of interest, as well as

• Publisher : Indiana University Press
• File Size : 27,9 Mb
• Release Date : 02 June 1997

"King provides a jarring snapshot of children living in bondage. This compellingly written work is a testament to the strength and resilience of the children and their parents".--"Booklist". "

• Publisher : National Academies Press
• File Size : 47,8 Mb
• Release Date : 01 February 1990

Few issues have aroused more heated public debate than that of day care for children of working parents. Who should be responsible for providing child careâ€"government, employers, schools, communities?