Children First: What Our Society Must do-And is not Doing-For Our Chil Dren Today - Softcover

Leach, Penelope

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9780140238129: Children First: What Our Society Must do-And is not Doing-For Our Chil Dren Today

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ISBN 10: 0140238123 ISBN 13: 9780140238129

Publisher: Penguin, 1994

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The author's book "Baby and Child" illuminates children's points of view for millions of parents. In this book she exposes what she considers the failure of Western societies to be child- and parent-friendly and argues for a new social, political and economic priority for children.

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"A Book Full Of Wisdom and challenge, written by one of the world's leading nurturers of parents. Dr. Leach is deeply concerned about the inadequate support and parenting children are getting in our present marketplace society. She challenges all of us to put families and children first, and she suggests innovative ways that not only society but individual parents can bring about change in our priorities. A wonderful book!"

-- T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.

About the Author:

Penelope Leach, author of Your Baby & Child, Your Growing Child, Babyhood and The First Six Months, was educated at Cambridge University and the London School of Economics, where she received her Ph.D. in psychology and lectured on psychology and child development. A Fellow of the British Psychological Society and Chair of the Child Development Society, she works in various capacities for parents' organizations and sits on the Commission on Social Justice. Her program "Your Baby & Child" is broadcast on Lifetime Television. Penelope Leach is married to an environmental policy analyst, and they have two children.

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