The world's best-known pediatrician and one of the bestselling authors of all time now caps his 60-year career with his legacy to America. A Better World for Children is Dr. Spock's prescription for what ails society, offering advice on the problems of the 1990s, ranging from education to discipline, from violent video games to the perils of Beavis and Butt-head.
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The world's best-known pediatrician and one of the bestselling authors of all time now caps his 60-year career with his legacy to America. A Better World for Children is Dr. Spock's prescription for what ails society, offering advice on the problems of the 1990s, ranging from education to discipline, from violent video games to the perils of Beavis and Butt-head.
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Fine. Fine Ships From Canada Fine No dust jacket as issued Previous owner's name first page, otherwise new Trade paperback (US) Glued binding Audience: General/trade From Kirkus Reviews At 91, Spock (Dr Spock on Parenting, 1988, etc ) offers his twilight thoughts on American society--and they're not happy ones Although Spock's jabs come from the political left, his diagnosis is not unlike that of social conservatives like William Bennett Among his points: The unraveling of family cohesiveness is a major cause of the country's social ills; there is a ``progressive coarsening of the society's attitude toward love and sexuality, which is further cheapened and exploited by television, films and popular music '' But Spock also argues for better day-care facilities so that single motherhood needn't sentence both parent and child to poverty He also discusses racial and gender discrimination At heart, the old doctor is battling against a bottom-line, instrumental valuation of human life, an.
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