Research Catalog

Title

Fathers and mothers / by Aldo Naouri ; [translation by Graham Robert Edwards].

Author

Naouri, Aldo.

Publication

London : Free Association Books, 2005.

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Description

iii, 218 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"The author's thesis is that in Western societies the father has been ejected from his central position in the family structure, and although the mother's role has been heightened, the child has now replaced the father at the top of the family pyramid, damaging the development of the child." "Naouri argues that the evolution of our species gave the father a central role to play in his child's development, endowing the child with the consciousness of time, balancing the mother's natural tendency to satisfy without delay every need of a child she could scarcely imagine was no longer a part of her." "Given the father's diminished role, how can today's child acquire an awareness of time? Perhaps, says Naouri, infant care must be entirely re-examined, because it was based on the recommendations of pediatricians whose bias was overly maternal."--BOOK JACKET.

Uniform Title

Pères et les mères. English

Alternative Title

Pères et les mères.

Subject

• Families
• Family Relations [MESH]
• Father-Child Relations [MESH]
• Mother-Child Relations [MESH]
• Parenthood

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

1853437697

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library