Childhood After Collapse: Raising Capable, Hopeful Children in Post-Apocalyptic Fiction and High-Stress Real Life

What remains of childhood when a family's familiar world disappears? Childhood After Collapse explores that question through post-apocalyptic fiction and reflections on family life under sustained stress. Its central concern is the space between a child treated as helpless baggage and a child expected to carry adult responsibilities: meaningful agency that fits the child's judgment and circumstances.
The book examines how families communicate frightening information, transfer competence, mai...