Kirkus
"Provocative and timely, this analysis offers a fresh voice of hope for America's troubled youth." 11/15/1995New Republic
"The news that American children are in trouble is not new, at least not to those who pay even perfunctory attention to the evidence, which is everywhere. Lurid stories of children abandoned, abused, battered, or murdered by the adults they most trust, frequently their own parents, appear prominently in the media. But the sense that childhood should offer something better continues to haunt us....We are living in the midst of children who are anxious, afraid, pressured, or disoriented, and they are too many to number....In his valuable book, Richard Weissbourd traces the impact of these and other developments in the lives of children whom he has interviewed and charts the prevailing tendencies for children in general. A clear-eyed focus upon the vulnerabilities that all children share lies as the center of his argument, though his specific cases tend to focus on the poor more than the affluent." - Elizabeth Fox-Genovese 06/03/1996 |
