Raised in Captivity: Why Does America Fail Its Children?

By Lucia Hodgson

Cultural critic Lucia Hodgson examines the contradictory and even harmful responses Americans give when faced with the issues that most dramatically affect children's lives. Stripping away the hype... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1555972616
• ISBN13: 9781555972615
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 1.3" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Lacerates popular dogma about teenagers

Hodgson's great book provides innovative perspective on the war against young people that characterizes the '90s, replete with illustrations as fresh as today's news and a multitude of quotable "zingers." A chronicle of a terrible time in which America abandoned its kids and called it "morality."

a compelling expose of perils facing children in America

This book is a page turner. Examining cultural attitudes as reflected in the media, Hodgson exposes the great hypocracies our society demonstrates toward children: claiming how much we care about children's well-being but unwilling to accord them the same human rights as adults. Hodgson does a good job of showing the "big picture" while still using lots of specific details, and makes the reader look at familiar news stories from a different angle.