Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Today in American culture, the barbarous id is both powerful and profitable (in the drug underworld and the entertainment industry, for example). The transmission of values is more difficult. Today's parents are often raising children in a world far removed from their own memories of childhood...
...status in the world. Teachers have endured a long decline in public esteem. Day-care workers rarely earn a living wage. The role of mother is being rewritten, and that of father as well. A generation of children is being raised in the midst of a redefinition of parenting. Childhood has become a kind of experiment...
...examining the changed shape of childhood may allow parents and children alike to understand it better. Each childhood is distinctive, the first chapter of a new biography in the world, and its truth is in the individual details. What follows is stories gathered by Boston Correspondent Melissa Ludtke over a period of four months, stories of five children trying to grow up in America in the late 1980s...
...broken families, working mothers and perils like drugs, growing up is not easy. From the depressed hollows of West Virginia to the comfortable breezes off Puget Sound, five terrific kids laugh and play and struggle through the jagged landscape of modern childhood...
Oprah Winfrey overcame childhood abuse, teenage rebellion and TV imagemakers to become host of the tube' s most popular daytime talk show...