Raised in Captivity: Why Does America Fail Its Children?

Cultural critic Lucia Hodgson examines the contradictory and even harmful responses Americans give when faced with the issues that most dramatically affect childrens lives. Stripping away the hype surrounding such cases as the Menendez brothers Baby Jessica and Susan Smiths murder of her children Hodgson reveals Americas self-deception about childrens realities and shows that the more we focus on individual cases of deviation the more we overlook the systemic causes of the problem.