A renowned psychologist-author of The Hurried Child-looks at what has happened to the American family in the last few decades, putting together all the puzzling facts and conflicting accounts to show what this instituion has become. "Sums up the changes we are all witnessing and their cost to children".-T. Berry Brazelton, author of Touchpoints | Ties That Stress by David Elkind, Paperback | Indigo Chapters