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Book Reviews of Home-Alone America: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes

Home-Alone America: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes
HomeAlone America The Hidden Toll of Day Care Behavioral Drugs and Other Parent Substitutes
Author: Mary Eberstadt
ISBN-13: 9781595230041
ISBN-10: 1595230041
Publication Date: 11/4/2004
Pages: 218
Rating:
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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4.1 stars, based on 7 ratings
Publisher: Sentinel
Book Type: Hardcover
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The book's message is unnecessarily complicated by too much verbiage, but it's really quite simple: kids need their parents. By and large, they aren't getting them. The author details widespread symptoms and increasingly common quick-fixes (Ritalin) to make her point.

The section I found most disturbing was the on one "specialty" schools for "problem" teens, as I was not formerly aware of their existence. I will definitely be reading Alexia Parks' book "American Gulag."