Summary
Penelope Lecah: First children: what society doesn't do, and should, for today's children
The famous author of the bestseller Baby and Child (whose renewed edition under the title Your child is published by Algoritma), one of the most famous books about raising children, does not need to be introduced. In this disturbing book, which really cannot leave anyone indifferent, it discusses social attitudes that show Western society as a whole to be fundamentally maladapted, even hostile to children and parenting. easily first published ten years ago, in today's time when there is almost no European country that is not facing a drastic drop in the birth rate with all its economic consequences - this deeply human manifesto, a call to action as some critics call it - has lost none of its topicality and significance. Through a series of details from a child's life, through its various developmental stages (the basis of her approach is child-oriented), the author shows us what are the social misconceptions, entrenched myths or poorly disguised selfish interests of certain market factors that have made parental time and energy an almost inaccessible category. The consequences are all around us - badly spent early years of life are reflected in high rates of crime or drug addiction, in the growing number of unbalanced, unhappy and neurotic individuals of all age and social groups... easily at times almost merciless, the book has an extremely constructive approach and offers a number of solutions, both for the reshaping of economic priorities in the countries of the Western cultural circle, and for a system of true, and not just feminist, gender equality. A society focused on children is a society in which everyone, regardless of whether we are parents or not yet - and we were all children once - feel like better and happier people.
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