Unequal Childhoods
Lareau, Annette / Sands, Xe Class does make a difference in the lives and futures of American children. Drawing on in-depth observations of black and white middle-class, working-class, and poor families, Unequal Childhoods explores this fact, offering a picture of childhood today. Here are the frenetic families managing their children's hectic schedules of leisure activities, and here are families with plenty of time but little economic security. Lareau shows how middle-...