On Parenting at New School:

Parenting is fast becoming an activity organized around fear. Whether it is angst about some external threat or worry about the unintended psychological consequences of their own actions, parents are under pressure as never before. Why has raising children become so fraught with difficulty? How did we come to view childhood as so dangerous? What are the consequences of insulating children from risk?

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