Parenting - Why Are We Afraid to Let Go?

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Sondra Farganis

Sondra Farganis received a PhD from Australian National University and is a recipient of Fulbright and NEH awards. She is the director of the Wolfson Center for National Affairs and her publications include Social Reconstruction of the Feminine Character, Situating Feminism, and articles on contemporary social and political thought. Dr. Farganis has taught at CUNY, Vassar, and Hamilton.

Paula Fass
Paula S. Fass is the Margaret Byrne Professor of History at the University of California at Berkeley, where she has taught for the past thirty-one years. Her books include Outside In: Minorities and the Transformation of American Education (1989), The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s (1977), Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America (1997), and Childhood in America (2000, edited with Mary Ann Mason). Most recently, she was the editor-in-chief of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society (2004).

Nancy McDermott
Nancy McDermott writes about public policy, private sphere and personal autonomy.

Alan Miller
Alan Miller is Director of The NY Salon. He also is the co-founder of London's Truman Brewery and Vibe Bar.

Miller is also a film director and writer.

Sharna Olfman
Sharna Olfman, Ph.D. is a professor of clinical and developmental psychology at Point Park University, the founding director of the Childhood and Society Symposium and the editor of the Childhood in America book series for Praeger Press.

David Shankbone
David Shankbone is a writer, photographer and law student. He worked at Enron in London and then at Vinson & Elkins in Houston, but he never once shred a document. He has taken the portraits of influential people from famous First Amendment advocate Floyd Abrams to bearded woman Professor Jennifer Miller to Mystic River author Dennis Lehane. He has created a large body of photographic images of New York landmarks, neighborhoods, and people, but also common things such as skywriting, lettuce and eight ball players. These images are found on Wikipedia and are available for anyone to use in any manner for blogs, presentations, books, etc. Shankbone has lived in three countries, six states and 17 cities. He attended Fordham Law School.

Peter Stearns
Peter N. Stearns was named Provost of George Mason University effective January 1, 2000. He also regularly teaches courses in world history and social history. Stearns received his Ph.D. from Harvard University, and previously attended Harvard College

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Sondra Farganis: Introduction

02 min 04 sec

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David Shankbone: Don't Panic

02 min 59 sec

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Alan Miller: Panel Intro

04 min 14 sec

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Paula S. Fass: The Importance Of History

06 min 13 sec

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Public Responsibility

04 min 36 sec

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Nancy McDermott: A Nation Of Wimps

04 min 44 sec

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Adult Solidarity & Public Scrutiny

03 min 36 sec

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Sharna Olfman: Lacking Family Support Systems

03 min 19 sec

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Screen Technologies

04 min 16 sec

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Peter Stearns: Guilt, Nostalgia, Confidence

06 min 32 sec

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Q1: Letting Parents Off The Hook

02 min 02 sec

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Q2: Instead Of Giving Up

01 min 18 sec

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Q3: Psychologizing Parenting

02 min 31 sec

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Q4: Fear In America

02 min 41 sec

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Q5: Undermined Authority

01 min 34 sec

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Q6: Changing Parental Time

05 min 39 sec

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Q7: A Critical Mass Of Women

02 min 20 sec

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Q8: Divorce & Relatives

04 min 02 sec

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Q9: Declining Politics & Public Life

03 min 04 sec

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Q10: Historical Parental Time

02 min 15 sec

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Q11: Multiplied Anxieties

01 min 22 sec

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Q12: Infantilizing Adulthood

03 min 01 sec

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Q13: Not Off The Hook, Substance Abuse

02 min 04 sec

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Q14: Watching Aliens

01 min 13 sec

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Q15: Immigrant Groups

01 min 42 sec

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The Internet, Extended Family

05 min 49 sec

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Media Effect

02 min 45 sec

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Q16: Walking To School

01 min 52 sec

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Q17: Parental Social Lives

02 min 12 sec

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Q18: American Family Values

01 min 39 sec

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Q19: A New Hope

03 min 03 sec

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Q20: Sanitized Children

00 min 47 sec

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Q21: Transient Husbands, Children Are Forever

01 min 50 sec

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The Political Climate

04 min 42 sec

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35.

Technologies

04 min 05 sec

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36.

A New Kind Of Politics

03 min 04 sec

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37.

Not Just The Voting Booth

01 min 08 sec

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Paula Fass on Childhood Abduction

06 min 09 sec

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Nancy McDermott: We Are Raising a Nation of Wimps

05 min 08 sec

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Sharna Olfman on Family Support Systems in the U.S.

03 min 44 sec

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