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Rent Home-Alone America: Why Today's Kids Are Overmedicated, Overweight, and More Troubled Than Ever Before
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin USA
Published: Sep 2005
Genre: Family & Relationships - Parenting
Retail Price: $14.95
Pages: 240
Synopsis
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.