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Child care in America has become a kind of vast social experiment. Not only has the archetypal nuclear family of the 1950s (working father, stay-at-home wife) given way to a myriad of customized arrangements, each as unique as a baby's toeprint, but this historic shift has been accompanied by a new awareness of the importance of attachment and family ties in the emotional development of a child. Parents today, primed by racks of best-selling child- care manuals, are haunted by questions about their changing roles. What kind of bonding takes place when a child is passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Changing Family: The Great Experiment | 11/8/1990 | See Source »

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