The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis Hilger Nate G.
How parents have been set up to fail, and why helping them succeed is the key to achieving a fair and prosperous society.Parenting is, by many measures, the largest industry in the United States. Yet…
Specifikacia The Parent Trap: How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis Hilger Nate G.
How parents have been set up to fail, and why helping them succeed is the key to achieving a fair and prosperous society.Parenting is, by many measures, the largest industry in the United States. Yet it receives little political support, and its many workers--also known as parents--toil in isolation, without recognition or compensation. If they ask for help, they are made to feel guilty. The parenting industry has no centralized organization representing its interests, and it spends almost nothing on research and development. It's almost as if parents are set up to fail. In The Parent Trap, Nate Hilger explains how this inefficient, inequitable, and demoralizing situation has come about and what we can do about it.Parents are expected to do more than care for their children. In the 90 percent of the time that their kids are not in school, parents must help them