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Author:

Carney, Timothy P., 1978- author.

Title:

Family unfriendly : how our culture made raising kids much harder than it needs to be / Timothy P. Carney.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Harperan imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,

Copyright Date:

2024

Description:

xxii, 343 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-330) and index.

Contents:

Preface: Friday Night Lights -- Have lower ambitions for your kids -- "Hey, parents, leave your kids alone" -- Want fecundity in the sheets? Give us walkability in the streets -- It takes a village -- What killed the second baby boom? -- We can't afford a baby bust -- Should Uncle Sam subsidize Mom and Dad? -- Israel: the fruitful garden of the wealthy world -- Posthuman: how our tech has changed us -- The mystery of the sex recession -- We need a family-friendly feminism -- You should quit your job -- A culture of sterility -- Civilizational sadness.

Summary:

"Washington Examiner columnist Timothy P. Carney explains why parenting is harder and children are less happy than a generation ago"-- Provided by publisher.
Our culture tells parents there's one best way to raise kids: enroll them in a dozen activities, protect them from trauma, and get them into the most expensive college you can. If you can't do that, don't bother. How is that going? Record rates of anxiety, depression, medication, debts, loneliness and more. In Family Unfriendly, bestselling author and Washington Examiner columnist Timothy P. Carney says it's time to end this failed experiment in overparenting. Have more kids, have more fun, cancel the travel soccer games, let your kids wander off, and give them deeper sources of meaning than material success. This is an old-fashioned view, but every day the evidence validates it. Drawing on rigorous research--both as a reporter and as a dad of six--Carney demonstrates why modern parenting is so misguided. The high standards set for modern American parenting are unrealistic and setting parents--and our kids--up to fail. Researched over three years and written in between rec baseball games and church picnics where nobody was watching the kids, Family Unfriendly is deeply wise, energetically told, and destined to be the most consequential book about parenting in years.

ISBN:

006323646X
9780063236462

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1424967912

LCCN:

2023040697

Locations:

TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)

ZOPC437 -- Woodbine Carnegie Public Library (Woodbine)