These days there is once again a great deal of hand-wringing about the sorry moral state of America’s children. All the usual suspects have been rounded up: parents who lack values, schools that neglect “character” education, and — conservative pundits’ favorite culprit — family breakdown. As William Bennett puts it in The Broken Hearth: Reversing […]
Richard Weissbourd
Richard Weissbourd teaches at Harvard's Graduate School of Education and the Kennedy School of Government and is the author of The Vulnerable Child (Addison-Wesley).
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Distancing Dad
“Would you tell your wife to pack your son an extra pair of shoes tomorrow?”
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
Divided Families, Whole Children
Listening to the children of divorce can help us understand how to mend the damage of marital discord and family breakup.