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Parenting to a Degree
Laura T. Hamilton
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Description for Parenting to a Degree
Hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 499.
Helicopter parents—the kind that continue to hover even in college—are one of the most ridiculed figures of twenty-first-century parenting, criticized for creating entitled young adults who boomerang back home. But do involved parents really damage their children and burden universities? In this book, sociologist Laura T. Hamilton illuminates the lives of young women and their families to ask just what role parents play during the crucial college years.
Hamilton vividly captures the parenting approaches of mothers and fathers from all walks of life—from a CFO for a Fortune 500 company to a waitress at a roadside diner. ... Read more
Helicopter parents—the kind that continue to hover even in college—are one of the most ridiculed figures of twenty-first-century parenting, criticized for creating entitled young adults who boomerang back home. But do involved parents really damage their children and burden universities? In this book, sociologist Laura T. Hamilton illuminates the lives of young women and their families to ask just what role parents play during the crucial college years.
Hamilton vividly captures the parenting approaches of mothers and fathers from all walks of life—from a CFO for a Fortune 500 company to a waitress at a roadside diner. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Publication date
2016
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226183367
SKU
V9780226183367
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