Adult Supervision Required: Private Freedom and Public Constraints for Parents and Children

by Markella B. Rutherford

Book Overview

Adult Supervision Required considers the contradictory ways in which contemporary American culture has imagined individual autonomy for parents and children. In many ways, today's parents and children have more freedom than ever before. There is widespread respect for children's autonomy as distinct individuals, and a broad range of parenting styles are flourishing. Yet it may also be fair to say that there is an unprecedented fear of children's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813561132
• ISBN13: 9780813561134
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary