Wanting What's Best: Parenting, Privilege, and Building a Just World - Couverture souple

Jaffe, Sarah W.

 
9781641607674: Wanting What's Best: Parenting, Privilege, and Building a Just World
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 164160767X ISBN 13 : 9781641607674
Editeur : Chicago Review Press, 2022

Synopsis

When privileged parents say that they "want what's best" for their child, they don't consciously add "and not for other children." Yet the practical effect of parents with privilege relentlessly pursuing their own child's interests is that other children are left behind. Author Sarah W. Jaffee interviewed dozens of parents who are resisting the cultural pressures to seek "the best" for only their kids while navigating some of the major decisions that parents make―about childcare, schools, how they use their time and money, and the legacy they hope to leave their kids. These may not feel like political decisions, but each either contributes to a system where only a few can thrive or take a small steps toward dismantling it. Our children are watching and learning from how we make choices. How we treat the people who care for them tells them how they should behave as a boss. Where we send them to school teaches them about their place in the world. How we spend our time and money sends them more powerful messages about how to spend theirs than any lecture about the importance of giving back or gratitude ever could. What does it look like to fight for other people's children as if the future of your own child depended on it? What choices would you make?

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À propos de l?auteur

Sarah W. Jaffe has written about parenting, foster care, and inequities in the healthcare system for Slate, Catapult. the Rumpus, Lit Hub, and BKLYNER. She is currently a writer for the parenting website Romper. Previously, she worked as an attorney representing foster children, in both family court and federal court proceedings. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.

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Éditeur
Chicago Review Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
164160767X
ISBN 13 
9781641607674
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
Buchpark GmbH
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