Parenting to a Degree: How Family Matters for College Women's Success

by Laura T. Hamilton

Book Overview

Helicopter parents--the kind that continue to hover even in college--are one of the most ridiculed figures of twenty-first-century parenting, criticized for creating entitled young adults who boomerang back home. But do involved parents really damage their children and burden universities? In this book, sociologist Laura T. Hamilton illuminates the lives of young women and their families to ask just what role parents play during the crucial college...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022618336X
• ISBN13: 9780226183367
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"