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Childhood in America has changed, and not for the better. From day care for babies, to the exhausting array of activities for children, to the storm of lurid and violent shows now deemed appropriate for the young, to the expectation that teenagers build resumes, childhood has been thoroughly redefined. Anne R. Pierce argues that this radical re-definition has been embraced with remarkably little discussion about what children, by nature, need.

Pierce submits that we have latched onto opinions about childrearing that are potentially harmful to children. If traditions are choices to be embraced or abandoned at our discretion, and adult self-fulfillment is...
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Childhood in America has changed, and not for the better. From day care for babies, to the exhausting array of activities for children, to the storm of lurid and violent shows now deemed appropriate for the young, to the expectation that teenagers build resumes, childhood has been thoroughly redefined. Anne R. Pierce argues that this radical re-definition has been embraced with remarkably little discussion about what children, by nature, need.

Pierce submits that we have latched onto opinions about childrearing that are potentially harmful to children. If traditions are choices to be embraced or abandoned at our discretion, and adult self-fulfillment is a primary determinant in those choices, the fundamentals of the well-wrought childhood are easily forgotten. Steeped in intellectual permissiveness, we have convinced ourselves that parental substitutes are as good as parents themselves at caring for children, that the concepts of nurture and of the maternal are archaic and irrelevant, that more lessons and sports are better than less and that the earlier one embarks upon them the better, and that innocence and knowledge are less important than worldly attitudes and competitive skills.

Understanding and challenging the theories and agendas behind childrearing trends is a pressing need, and the subject of this book. Pierce takes an honest look at the evidence on the effects of daycare and of hyper-structuring children. She gives voice to the many intelligent and estimable educators, child-development experts, researchers, and social commentators who are ignored because their conclusions are hard to bear. Equally important, Pierce says, is attention to that inner tug of loveand conscience, which many of us have been programmed to ignore.

Modern American children are expected to adjust and to understand as adults would the complexities and vicissitudes of public as opposed to private life. For them, childhood is fast becoming a distant memory. Could it be that America's thrust forward leaves children without a solid foundation upon which to grow? This is the sobering question asked, and answered, in this challenging book.

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James E. Swain
"Ships without a Shore provides a vivid and stinging critique of the state of affairs of our young - from babies to adolescents. Anne R. Pierce provides a compelling discussion of the key issues that contribute to child development and health as well as more subtle aspects of life such as optimism and positive expectations, from parenting to peer and media influences in our rapidly changing world. Exhibiting exceptional scholarly review, she presents arguments from a range of fields touching child development using summary and quotation surrounded by her own analyses. In this way, she raises concerns about the way in which modern forces are filling our children's lives with information and busy activities that have empty materialistic goals and do not engender introspection, enjoyment of simple pleasures. This book raises the alarm that current conditions are creating children without a moral compass - especially during developmental phases which set the capacity for these feelings to ever develop. She argues convincingly that without appropriate time to reflect on the wonders of being alive during the right developmental stages, we may be raising an antisocial and non-creative generation of children who will grow to become adults unable to reach their imaginative, altruistic and emotionally balanced potential because of this neglect and materialistic environment. This is an extremely important book on the importance and challenges of child development at our current technological crossroads at which media is able to deliver incredible 'programming' to our youth to massive and potentially disastrous effect."--(James E. Swain, Assistant Professor, Child Study Center, School ofMedicine, Yale University)
Jane M. Healy
"Gutsy and provocative, Anne Pierce presents an articulate, no-holds-barred indictment of current child-rearing practices. Read this book, and you will have plenty to talk-and to think-about!"--(Jane M. Healy, Educational psychologist and author of Endangered Minds)
Nathan Tarcov
"Thoughtful parents will find Anne Pierce's Ships Without a Shore a provocative, even disturbing book. She challenges the ethos of self-fulfillment, personal achievement, and moral relativism propagated by conventional wisdom and popular culture, and draws a bleak picture of its effects on child rearing. Drawing on her own experience as a parent and observation of other parents and children as well as on neurological, psychological, and other social scientific research, taking a long historical perspective and appealing to the insights of an earlier philosophical and religious tradition, Anne Pierce talks unfashionably and compellingly about children's natural needs for stable parental love and care and to be taught right and wrong and have their innocence protected from corruption."--(Nathan Tarcov, University of Chicago)

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781412807166
  • Publisher: Transaction Publishers
  • Publication date: 1/31/2008
  • Pages: 276
  • Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 9.20 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Anne R. Pierce is an independent scholar with a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. She has published articles on social/political issues and foreign policy. She is the author of Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman: Mission and Power in American Foreign Policy, available from Transaction.

Table of Contents

1 Liberation, Illusion, and the Pressure to Conform 1

2 Love and Stability: The Fundamentals of Early Childhood, which Day Care Cannot Provide 69

3 Moral Relativism and its Influence upon Modern Parents 133

4 Education without Moorings: The Surge Forward That Leaves Innocence and Introspection Behind 191

Selected Bibliography 255

Index 259

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  • Posted October 6, 2009

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    An absolute must read for all concerned parents, caretakers,teachers, and social studies/social work professionals.

    Critical reading for academicians, sociologists, school and children program developers. Anne summarizes critical research pertaining to the long term effects within society of our undernutured children. For the health of our children in achieving their full potential, dreams and contributions to subsequent generations, this book is a MUST read. Every day that passes without our awareness of the effects of our current patterns in society regarding our children is a day too late. Ships without ashore provides this insight!

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  • Posted November 23, 2008

    A nuanced, empathetic critique of the restlessness of American life and its detrimental affects on children. A contemporary appendix to Alexis de Tocqueville's "Democracy in America."

    Lucid, deeply learned, and emotionally perceptive, this timely book asks us to stop and think about the frenetic way of life we impose on children and on ourselves, a way of life in which actions and feelings are often at odds. Shouldn¿t we rather allow everyone, children and adults alike, to harmonize their actions with their feelings more, to live lives freer from that conflict? Accordingly, the author does not give a pat answer to the dilemma of maintaining a career and raising children, because a woman¿s harmonious life may indeed involve both. As Pierce says:

    ¿Unearthing the problems simmering beneath the attractive bustle of modern American life need not mean returning to our old ways nor discarding women¿s advances. . . . It will give our forward moving lives a truthful as opposed to illusory foundation. . . . Reflection and adequate information will make our choices about whether and how much to work when our children are very young more meaningful, regardless of the choices we make. . . . The choice is one more link in the chain of freedom, a logical result of the belief that we are all endowed with the `inalienable¿ right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. It is that very freedom, that confronted me and other mothers as both an opportunity and a dilemma, that calls for us to pause.¿ (Ships Without A Shore, pp. 2-3)

    An insightful and rewarding book that I found well worth pausing for.
    JSwanson in Boston

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    Posted July 30, 2008

    Providing a Safe Shore for a Silenced Minority

    Motivated by the negligence of modern parents on determining appropriate childrearing approaches, Anne Pierce examines the harsh consequences American society inflicts upon our children in ¿Ships Without a Shore¿. Today¿s standards create no solid foundation for substantial growth as the pressures of early-age education, improving talents, organized sports and creating impressive resumes takes away from the innocence and creativity children thrive upon. Pierce suggests that moral values have become optional as children turn to the media and their peers for guidance as a result of a household with two working parents, who are often too busy for adequate family time. The definition of a nuclear family has changed in the past two decades to include mothers who seek fulfillment in the workplace rather than their homes, single parent families as a result of teen and out-of-wedlock pregnancies, and the increasing divorce rate. These social issues directly affect children as mothers are contributing to their family¿s financial wellbeing, rather than satisfying parent-child relationships. According to Pierce, this model for the self-fulfilled mother is supported by the media¿s portrayal of powerful women in the corporate world and popular opinion that mothers should be free from guilt of leaving their duties at home. The data presented by the media on the effects of two working parents is a seemingly reasonable situation for families, yet the figures are often misleading: as Pierce¿s research points out, many of the so-called `working mothers¿ hold part time jobs, have flexible hours, or work from home and are therefore a constant presence in her child¿s life and providing at- home care rather than institutionalized. She argues that many daycares promote `early learning¿, which often is not age appropriate, and sheds light that although several centers may be high quality, no child will receive the same love and trust that a parent can provide. Many psychological problems arise from the abandonment of infants and young children to daycare and early learning centers that create adolescent and adult disorders. Pierce gathers many scientific studies and includes them in her text, making the information available and understandable to the reader. She also provides comprehensive examples of worldly political and psychological trends that have influenced popular thought, such as the Soviet Revolution, which placed focus on the community rather than families, and the justification of any and all choices in our current cultural relativism. Furthermore, the text cites specific familial examples of various interviews conducted by Pierce, and even personal accounts from her experience as a `working¿ mother. ¿Ships Without a Shore¿ gives a voice to the mothers who fight the pressure to return to the workforce those who are ignored because popular opinion is much easier to accept than the truth that is hard to hear. Anne Pierce reminds parents that children can learn outside institutions and structured activities children must grow in their imaginations and especially, in love. This book forces us to ask, `What are the optimal conditions for rearing a child?¿ rather than simply finding a convenient solution for parents.

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