Home-alone America: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes

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Argues that divorce rates, career-oriented families, and unhealthy parenting practices are contributing to such childhood problems as obesity and mental illness, and calls for more active parent participation in child care.

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