Our Kids
by Robert D. Putnam
Putnam on the opportunity gap: how class now shapes family stability, parenting, schooling and community for American children, told through paired life stories and data. Sobering and important.
Read it if…
you want to understand how childhood opportunity diverged by class.
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Skip it if…
you want parenting tips.
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Three things you will actually use
- Class gaps open before kindergarten.
- Mentors and networks are unequally distributed.
- Community used to buffer; it buffers less.
Do this first
Read the Port Clinton chapter and then the data chapter on parenting.
Our verdict
Sobering and important.
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