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Rebuilding American Family Values
by A Better World for Our Children
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0809231875
- ISBN 13
- 9780809231874
- Seller
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
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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- Bookseller
- Pine Tree Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9037595855
- Title
- Rebuilding American Family Values
- Author
- A Better World for Our Children
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0809231875
- ISBN 13
- 9780809231874
- Publisher
- Contemporary Books
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, Il
- This edition first published
- 1996
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