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...overwhelming majority of the world's child psychologists and child psychiatrists. Our universities and, increasingly, our high schools devote themselves to a proliferation of courses in child development. Journalists offer daily newspaper advice on child rearing. Books (and there are dozens of them) like those written by Dr. Spock attract an enormous, eager and sometimes all too gullible readership. The prevailing concern of parents is not what the child ought to believe and live up to (in the way of standards, rock-bottom beliefs, a religious faith) but what is "best" for the child. Every effort is made...
...attested to his parents' Christian virtues. The parents had recognized sin in their boys and girls and fought it (relatively) and subdued it (mostly). By the same token, today's parents also strive hard to be found among the elect. That includes those who have read their Spock (in revolutionary days it was the philosopher John Locke who had all kinds of advice about child rearing) and have sought out the best psychological methods or techniques for handling their young children, the best "learning environments" for educating them-and having done so, been found winners. The children...
...that preoccupations do not undergo a change in character over time. Many parents today have become disenchanted with endless psychological explanation and proscriptions. The phenomenon of permissiveness was, to a degree, real, and not simply a cleverly used political epithet. Dr. Spock has acknowledged that perhaps he ought to have advised more firmness toward children at certain points in their lives. Anna Freud, the founding and guiding spirit of child psychoanalysis, has acknowledged a definite faddish element in the name of her own discipline. Right now the nature of America's future is in question; we are no longer...
...given day, Dr. Spock might be glimpsed there selecting towels, Walter Matthau trying on suits. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis recently passed through to order presents to be sent to Caroline in London. Singer Diana Ross outfits herself and her children there?by long distance from California. Basketball Star Earl Monroe may drop in to pick up some after-shave lotion?and, he says, to "see how people with money...
...repeats it, her voice rising: "Karl, we were never in the sex business." But even if you concede that point, the question remains: why did these two bright, talented, wholesome people travel around the country asking 28 different celebrities--ranging from Maya Angelou and Erica Jong to Dr. Spock and Mae West--how they lost their virginity...