HomeschoolrsRUs
09-24-2007, 07:52 AM
YouTube - Death of the Grown-Up Part 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDA3R5oYQIQ)
Michelle recently interviewed Diana about the book and what the blurring between adolescence and adulthood in America might mean.
The book: Amazon.com: The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization: Books: Diana... (http://www.amazon.com/Death-Grown-up-Americas-Development-Civilization/dp/0312340486/hotair06-20)
From Publishers Weekly
West, a Washington Times columnist with a hard-line conservative's interest in culture, sounds a dire alarm over an age she sees marked by the mainstreaming of countercultural behavior. An unprecedented reversal of priorities from parents to children has occurred since the 1950s, according to West, allowing for structural failures that permitted the behavioral revolutions of the 1960s to go forward unimpeded.
Michelle recently interviewed Diana about the book and what the blurring between adolescence and adulthood in America might mean.
The book: Amazon.com: The Death of the Grown-up: How America's Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization: Books: Diana... (http://www.amazon.com/Death-Grown-up-Americas-Development-Civilization/dp/0312340486/hotair06-20)
From Publishers Weekly
West, a Washington Times columnist with a hard-line conservative's interest in culture, sounds a dire alarm over an age she sees marked by the mainstreaming of countercultural behavior. An unprecedented reversal of priorities from parents to children has occurred since the 1950s, according to West, allowing for structural failures that permitted the behavioral revolutions of the 1960s to go forward unimpeded.