[Read by Malcolm Hillgartner] In The Collapse of Parenting, Leonard Sax, an acclaimed expert on parenting and childhood development, identifies a key problem plaguing American children: the dramatic decline in young people's achievement and psychological health. The root of this problem, Sax contends, lies in the transfer of authority from parents to their children, a shift that has been occurring over the last fifty years and is now impossible to ignore. Sax pinpoints the effects of this shift, arguing that the rising levels of obesity, depression, and anxiety among young people can all be traced back to a corresponding decline in adult authority.

Product Description: Negotiating Adult–Child Relationships in Early Childhood Research presents a substantive critique of technicist and neoliberal approaches to ethics through an exploration of the complicated and often ‘messy’ situations faced in negotiating relationships in research with children...read more

Product Description: “What a wonderful gift this book is for aunties of all of ages, backgrounds, shapes and varieties!”—Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love“Melanie Notkin shines a much-needed spotlight on a bond that brings so much happiness to so many people...read more

Product Description: “What a wonderful gift this book is for aunties of all of ages, backgrounds, shapes and varieties!”—Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love“Melanie Notkin shines a much-needed spotlight on a bond that brings so much happiness to so many people...read more

Product Description: What About the Children! takes up the important task of examining the role of hegemonic masculinities in propping up a normative social order in which children are constructed as the property of adults. By examining adult-child relations in the context of a wide range of family forms and social contexts, the book provides some hard answers to questions relating to what exactly are the best interests of children, and how they should be determined...read more

Product Description: Even after 20 years of children's rights and new thinking about childhood, children are still frequently seen as apolitical. All over the world there has been a growing emphasis on 'participation', but much of this is adult-led, and spaces for children's individual and collective autonomy are limited...read more

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