Home-Alone America: Why Today's Kids Are Overmedicated, Overweight, and More Troubled Than Ever Before

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Argues that modern divorce rates, career-oriented families, and unhealthy parenting practices are contributing to such childhood problems as obesity, risky sexual behaviors, and mental illness, drawing on a range of medical and social science literature, as well as popular culture, to identify a need for more active parent participation in child care. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

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  Home-alone America: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs,...

  • 2004
  • 244 pages
  • Paperback
  • Obeikan Bookshop

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