Like Philippe Aries's Centuries of Childhood, this history of child rearing shows how the treatment of children holds the key to a society's success or failure and draws implications
There is much to admire in John Sommervilles synoptic survey, not least the energy with which he sweeps in 250 pages from Classical Antiquity to the present, synthesizing modern research and taking in such topics as education, the family, infant mortality, and child psychology...it...