If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's own needs and perspectives. Such decentering is relatively easy when a society is stable and when there is an extended, supportive structure that the parent can depend upon.


The hurried child: growing up too fast too soon (ed. Da Capo Press, 1988)


If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's own needs and...

If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's own needs and...

If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's own needs and...

If it is to be done well, child-rearing requires, more than most activities of life, a good deal of decentering from one's own needs and...