A Better World for Our Children: Rebuilding American Family Values

by Benjamin Spock

The dean of American pediatricians reflects on the disintegration of American values and its resulting impact on our children, arguing that parents must change their emphasis from materialism to a stress on responsibility, sharing, generosity, and service. $100,000 ad/promo. Tour.

Genres: Parenting

207 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Benjamin McLane Spock was an American pediatrician whose book Baby and Child Care, published in 1946, is one of the biggest best-sellers of all time. Its revolutionary message to mothers was that "you know more than you think you do." Spock was the first pediatrician to study psychoanalysis to try to understand children's needs and family dynamics.