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THE PARENT TRAP - NATE G HILGER GEBUNDEN

How parents have been set up to fail  and why helping them succeed is the key to achieving a
fair and prosperous society. Few people realize that raising children is the single largest
industry in the United States. Yet this vital work receives little political support  and its
primary workers-parents-labor in isolation. If they ask for help  they are made to feel
inadequate  there is no centralized organization to represent their interests  and there is
virtually nothing spent on research and development to help them achieve their goals. It's
almost as if parents are set up to fail-and the result is lost opportunities that limit
children's success and make us all worse off. In The Parent Trap  Nate Hilger combines
cutting-edge social science research  revealing historical case studies  and on-the-ground
investigation to recast parenting as the hidden crucible of inequality. Parents are expected
not only to care for their children but to help them develop the skills they will need to
thrive in today's socioeconomic reality-but most parents  including even the most caring
parents on the planet  are not trained in skill development and lack the resources to get help.
How do we fix this? The solution  Hilger argues  is to ask less of parents  not more. America
should consider child development a public investment with a monumental payoff. We need a
program like Medicare-call it Familycare-to drive this investment. To make it happen  parents
need to organize to wield their political power on behalf of children-who will always be the
largest bloc of disenfranchised people in this country. The Parent Trap exposes the true costs
of our society's unrealistic expectations around parenting and lays out a profoundly hopeful
blueprint for reform.

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