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Article: Hoover Fellow Mary Eberstadt Turns Spotlight onto Mental Problems, Behavioral Drugs, Obesity, Rap Music, and Other Troubling Facts about Kids Today.
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- December 15, 2004
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STANFORD, Calif. -- Drawing both the ire and the praise of social commentators, Mary Eberstadt's new book Home-Alone America: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes (Sentinel, 2004) opens the proverbial "can of worms" on the subject of how children are raised in America.
Some, as indicated by the New York Times book review title "New Salvo Is Fired in Mommy Wars," view the book as attacking working mothers. Others, such as scholar John Q. Wilson in the Wall Street Journal, have praised it, saying, "The great and, to me, unarguable theme of Mary Eberstadt's 'Home-Alone America' is that families are a very good thing and ...
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Transcript: BEHAVIORAL DRUGS IN SCHOOLS:JUDITH E. HEUMANN
Congressional Testimony;
September 29, 2000 ;
700+ words
... ... Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations Hearing on Behavioral Drugs in Schools: Questions and Concerns Chairman Hoekstra ... I understand the focus of this hearing is the use of behavioral drugs among children, and the effect this is having on their ...
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