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Article: The Family Bed: Sleeping With the Young & the Restless
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- August 9, 1996
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Rachel Epstein
Forward
08-09-1996
The Family Bed: Sleeping With the Young & the Restless.
To bed or not to bed. This is not a question of sex for Generation X, but rather the way Shakespeare might have framed the issue of whether children should be encouraged to sleep with their parents in a "family bed" or independently in beds of their own. Many authorities and families agree with Dr. Spock who, in his classic "Baby and Child Care," advocates no exceptions -- maybe "acute illness" -- to the rule of children in their own beds, and Dr. T. Berry Brazelton who writes in "Toddlers and Parents" that children's "sleep problems" are really "parents' problems."
But there is another side to this ...
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