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

paperback – September 6, 2005
by Eberstadt, Mary
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ISBN-13: 9781595230157 ISBN-10: 1595230157
Publisher
Plume
Binding
paperback
Published
September 6, 2005
Weight
0.5 lbs
Dimensions
21.30×1.70×14.20 cm

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Home-Alone America: Why Today's Kids Are Overmedicated, Overweight, and More Troubled Than Ever Before by Eberstadt, Mary. paperback edition. ISBN: 9781595230157.

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.