Generations and Globalization: Youth, Age, and Family in the New World Economy

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Adolescence; Fall 2007; 42, 167; ProQuest Sociology
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status, parental status, gender, and sexual orientation. Traversing

the biological, psychological, cultural, and economic dimensions of
mothering, they provide a compelling brief on the perplexing
choices confronting mothers in the contemporary world. Of
course, mothers most basically want their children to be safe and
healthy. But to this end they want and need many things: caring
partners, intergenerational and community support, a responsive
workplace, public services, and opportunities to share their experiences with other mothers. And they want their feelings and
actions as mothers to be understood and accepted by those
around them and by society at large. The role of psychotherapy in
reaching these latter goals is taken up by many of the contributors. They reflect on the special psychological challenges of pregnancy, birth, and the arrival of a newborn into a couple's (whether
hetero- or homosexual) life, and they address new venues of
therapeutic assistance, such as brief low-cost therapy for at-risk
mothers and infants and group interventions to help couples grow
into the new role of parental couples.
COLE, Jennifer, & DURHAM, Deborah (Eds ). Generations and
Globalization: Youth, Age, and Family in the New World
Economy. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University
Press, 2007. 240pp. $65.00 (h), $24.95 (p)
Globalization is not only a large-scale phenomenon: it is also inextricably bound up with intimate aspects of personhood, care,
and the daily decisions through which we make our lives. Looking
at sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, Mexico, the U.S., Europe,
India, and China, Generations and Globalization investigates the
impact of globalization in the context of families, age groups, and
intergenerational relations. The contributors offer an innovative
approach that focuses on the changing dynamics between generations, rather than treating changes in childhood, youth, or old
age as discrete categories. They argue that new economies and
global flows do not just transform contemporary family life, but are
in important ways shaped and constituted by it.
CONDRELL, Kenneth N. The Unhappy Child: What Every Parent
Needs to Know. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2006.
254pp. $18.00 (p).
There are millions of children in the U.S. who spend most of their
days feeling more unhappy than happy, and their parents haven't
a clue as to why. In this book, Kenneth N. Condrell presents the
ten most common, yet sometimes not-so-obvious causes of child619

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