The War Against Parents: What We Can Do for America's Beleaguered Moms and DadsA white woman and a black man come together to address the burning social issue of our time: the virtual abandonment of parents - poor and middle class - by our business, political, and cultural elites. Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West call for a Parents' Bill of Rights that gives new value and dignity to the parental role and restores our nation's commitment to the well-being of children. Hewlett and West show how for thirty years big business, government, and the wider culture have waged a silent war against parents. We live in a nation where market work, centered on profits and greed, increasingly crowds out nonmarket work, centered on commitment and care. In calling for a Parents' Bill of Rights, the authors seek to unite America's 62 million parents behind an agenda that spans the divides of race, gender, and class. |
Contents
Managerial Greed and the Collapse | 57 |
Government Tilts Against Parents | 88 |
A Poisonous Popular Culture | 125 |
The Disabling of Dads | 157 |
Promise Keepers and | 185 |
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