The Cultural Contours of Parenthood
A Bibliographic Review
illustration from Journeys through Bookland: A New and Original Plan for Reading Applied to the World's Best Literature for Children (1922); flickr.
All kinds of people are parents—rich and poor, pious and secular, married and single. America’s parenting culture reflects these differences. Economic, social, and other currents pull it, and parents, in different directions. Yet parents in the United States are also shaped by a common culture that includes ingrained ideas about the nature of children and family life, and all Americans must contend with the cultural complexities and contradictions of modern parenthood.
To read the full article online, please
login to your account
or
subscribe to our digital edition ($25 yearly). Prefer print?
Order
back issues or
subscribe to our print edition ($30 yearly).
Reprinted from The Hedgehog Review 15.3
(Fall 2013). This essay may not be resold, reprinted,
or redistributed for compensation of any kind without prior written permission. Please contact
The Hedgehog Review for further details.