如何让父母失败,以及为什么帮助他们成功,是实现一个公平繁荣社会的关键。
很少有人意识到养育孩子是美国最大的产业。然而,这项至关重要的工作几乎得不到政治支持,其主要工作人员的父母也在与世隔绝地工作。如果他们寻求帮助,他们就会感到自己不够;没有代表他们利益的中央组织;而且几乎没有任何资金用于帮助他们实现目标的研发。就好像父母注定要失败,结果是失去了机会,限制了孩子的成功,让我们所有人的境况都变得更糟。在《父母陷阱》一书中,内特·希尔格结合了前沿社会科学研究、揭示历史案例研究和实地调查,将养育子女重塑为不平等的隐藏熔炉。
父母不仅要照顾。。。
The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis
How parents have been set up to fail, and why helping them succeed is the key to achieving a fair and prosperous society.
Few people realize that raising children is the single largest industry in the United States. Yet this vital work receives little political support, and its primary workers—parents—labor in isolation. If they ask for help, they are made to feel inadequate; there is no centralized organization to represent their interests; and there is virtually nothing spent on research and development to help them achieve their goals. It’s almost as if parents are set up to fail—and the result is lost opportunities that limit children’s success and make us all worse off. InThe Parent Trap, Nate Hilger combines cutting-edge social science research, revealing historical case studies, and on-the-ground investigation to recast parenting as the hidden crucible of inequality.
Parents are expected not only to care for…
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