Article: Hoover Fellow Mary Eberstadt Turns Spotlight onto Mental Problems, Behavioral Drugs, Obesity, Rap Music, and Other Troubling Facts about Kids Today.

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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