Liberation's Children: Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age - Softcover

Hymowitz, Kay S.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1566635985 ISBN 13: 9781566635981

Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc, 2004

Synopsis

Kay Hymowitz explores the predicament of a generation growing up in a world where adults lavish them with material possessions but don't know how to provide them with the ordinary truths that give life meaning. She 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.

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Review:

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

This book is both engaging and brutal as social observation...--Paula S. Fass "The Review of Higher Education "

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 "

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

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ivan R Dee, Inc
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1566635985
• ISBN 13: 9781566635981
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224