In this section are books that look into the problems and opportunities facing children, families, and communities in early 21st century societies.

The Drucker Foundation, The Community of the Future (1999).

Don Eberly (ed.), The Essential Civil Society Reader (2000).

Amitai Etzioni, The New Golden Rule: Community and morality in a democratic society (1996).

Francis Fukuyama, The Great Disruption: Human nature and the reconstruction of social order (1999).

Michael J. Sandel, Democracy’s Discontent (1996).

Public Agenda Foundation, “Necessary Compromises: How parents, employers and children’s advocates view child care today” (2000).

Joan Williams, Unbending Gender: Why family and work conflict and what we can do about it (2000).

Kay Hymowitz, Ready or Not: Why treating children as small adults endangers their futures and ours (1999).

J. DeLoache and A. Gottlieb, A World of Babies: Imagined childcare for seven societies (2000).

Maureen Freeby, The Parent Trap: Children, families and the new morality (2000).

Thomas Hine, The Rise and the Fall of the American Teenager (1999).

Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson, Raising Cain: Protecting the emotional life of boys (1999).

William Pollack, Real Boys: Rescuing our sons from the myths of boyhood (1998).

Peter Breggin, Reclaiming Our Children – A healing plan for a nation in crisis (1999).

John Kingdom, No Such Thing as Society: Individualism and Community (1992).

John Macmurray, The Personal World (1996).

Robert Putnam, Making Democracy Work (1993).

Patricia Hersch, A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence (1998).

Susan Allport, A Natural History of Parenting (1997).

Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Cornel West, The War against Parents: What We Can Do for America’s Beleaguered Moms and Dads (1998).

W.J. Rorabaugh, The Craft Apprentice: from Franklin to the Machine Age in America (1986).

Meredith Small, Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent (1998).

Mary Pipher, The Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding Our Families (1996).

Penelop Leach, Children First: What Our Society Must do for Our Children Today (1994).

Rhona Mahony, Kidding Ourselves: Breadwinning, Babies and Bargaining Power (1995).

Irving B. Harris, Children in Jeopardy: Can we break the cycle of poverty? (1996).

Arthur Kornhaber, Grandparent Power!: How to Strengthen the Vital Connection Among Grandparents, Parents and Children (1994).

“A Survey of Recent Articles: The Battle Over Child Care” (The Wilson Quarterly, 1998).

Stanley Greenspan, “Why Encouraging Daycare is Unwise” (The American Enterprise, 1998).

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