Raising Children: Emerging Needs, Modern Risks, and Social Responses

by Jill Duerr Berrick

Book Overview

Modern family life raises tough questions: Who should be responsible for children's daily care? How can their financial support be fairly allocated between parents? Should extended family members be paid for their help? Can women have full careers and also be good mothers? In Raising Children, leading scholars take on these questions and more in order to critically assess policy responses to the changing needs of the modern family. As parents struggle...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195310128
• ISBN13: 9780195310122
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.2"