Family Unfriendly
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Family Unfriendly

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Family Unfriendly

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About This Book

The bestselling author of Alienated America traveled the country asking families and experts the same two questions: Why is parenting so hard now? And why are the results so bad?

Our culture tells parentsthere's one best way to raise kids: enroll them in a dozen activities, protect them from trauma, and get them into the most expensive college you can. If you can't do that, don't bother.

How is that going? Record rates of anxiety, depression, medication, debts, loneliness and more. In Family Unfriendly, bestselling author and Washington Examiner columnist Timothy P. Carney says it's time to end this failed experiment in overparenting.

Have more kids, have more fun, cancel the travel soccer games, let your kids wander off, and give them deeper sources of meaning than material success.

This is anold-fashioned view, but every day theevidence validates it. Drawing on rigorous research—both as a reporter and as a dad of six—Carney demonstrates why modern parenting is so misguided. The high standards set for modern American parenting are unrealistic and setting parents—and our kids—up to fail.

Researched over three years and written in between rec baseball games and church picnics where nobody was watching the kids, Family Unfriendly is deeply wise, energetically told, and destined to be the most consequential book about parenting in years.

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Publisher
Harper
Year
2024
ISBN
9780063236479
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Marriage & Family Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Epigraph
  3. Contents
  4. Preface: Friday Night Lights
  5. Chapter 1: Have Lower Ambitions for Your Kids
  6. Chapter 2: “Hey, Parents, Leave Your Kids Alone”
  7. Chapter 3: Want Fecundity in the Sheets? Give Us Walkability in the Streets
  8. Chapter 4: It Takes a Village
  9. Chapter 5: What Killed the Second Baby Boom?
  10. Chapter 6: We Can’t Afford a Baby Bust
  11. Chapter 7: Should Uncle Sam Subsidize Mom and Dad?
  12. Chapter 8: Israel: The Fruitful Garden of the Wealthy World
  13. Chapter 9: Posthuman: How Our Tech Has Changed Us
  14. Chapter 10: The Mystery of the Sex Recession
  15. Chapter 11: We Need a Family-Friendly Feminism
  16. Chapter 12: You Should Quit Your Job
  17. Chapter 13: A Culture of Sterility
  18. Chapter 14: Civilizational Sadness
  19. Acknowledgments
  20. Notes
  21. Index
  22. About the Author
  23. Also by Timothy P. Carney
  24. Copyright
  25. About the Publisher