Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety

By J. Warner. 2005

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Inequality begins at home: The role of parenting in the diverging destinies of rich and poor children. (2015, unknown): “The Role of Parenting in Producing Disparities Does parenting matter for children’s development, or are rich parents caught up in a “perfect madness” of concerted cultivation (Warner, 2005).”
Parental Leisure Time: A Gender Comparison in Five Countries (2013, result): “Our results are consistent with the interpretation that the urgent pressure to ensure children do not miss out on mothers’ attention, noted in a range of academic and popular writing (see for example Hays 1998; Warner 2005; Schulte 2010; Wall 2010) is most keenly felt in the Anglo countries.”
Generational differences in psychological traits and their impact on the workplace (2008, background): “There are increasing pressures for intensive parenting (for a review, see Warner, 2005) as well as increasing time demands of high-level careers.”