Word: cottin
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...they sometimes seem to cover it, like drifting snow over new paths. Indeed, should the father have persevered, he might have found some first-rate advice about children in that very same book. He would also have found a kind of zip-lock naivete that insulates Author Letty Cottin Pogrebin inside a cocoon of ideology. How else could a writer suggest, never mind believe, that children might be encouraged to forsake the music of the Rolling Stones (sexist, of course) for the uplifting ballads of Gay Feminist Holly Near. Ideology infringes on reality; one suspects it can also skew...
...less Mom, they say, would result in greater equality, not only for parents but also for the next generation. This is fine in theory, but the actual how-to-do-it has remained a puzzle. Now the first real guide to nonsexist child raising has appeared: Letty Cottin Pogrebin's innovative and exhaustive Growing Up Free: Raising Your Child in the 80's (McGraw-Hill; $15.95). Even the eminent Dr. Benjamin Spock, who invented modern parenting, describes the book as "essential" for rearing liberated children...