Parents Fall 2000

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Parenting is serious business. Witness the enormous volume of literature produced on the topic and the virulent reactions parenting how-to books tend to provoke. We have declined to wade deeply into the sea of how-to parenting books, choosing instead a few well-known works representing several different points of view. Most selections are meant to shed light on a certain topic related to parenting—such as the general state of girlhood, boyhood, or teenagerhood today.

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Families at the Crossroads: Beyond Traditional and Modern Options, Rodney Clapp (InterVarsity, 1993), 208 pp., $14.99. Critiques and challenges both older and current visions of the family in light of the biblical narrative.

Is It a Lost Cause?: Having the Heart of God for the Church's Children, Marva Dawn (Erdmans, 1997), 256 pp., $16.00. Suggests biblically centered parenting, rooted in communities of faith, to arrest popular culture's undermining of children's spiritual development.

A Landscape with Dragons: The Battle for Your Child's Mind, Michael O'Brien (Ignatius, 1998), 260 pp., $12.95. A challenging discussion of the impact of media on the development of children's moral and intellectual vision.

Of Woman Born: Motherhood As Experience and Institution, Adrienne Rich (Norton, 1986), 304 pp., $14.95. This award-winning poet and writer considers the experience of motherhood from intellectual, spiritual, and personal perspectives.

The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager, Thomas Hine (Bard, 1999), 324 pp., $24.00. Hine traces the rise of the category "teenager" from the early twentieth century to the present, and argues for a reconsideration of young people and their relationship to the larger community.

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