social-withdrawal

[Judith Warner:] Our neurotic quest to perfect the mechanics of mothering can be interpreted as an effort to do on an individual level what we__e stopped trying to do on a society-wide one.

Golden sees parental uninterest in collective solutions as part of a larger __ecline in the social contract__ "As a scholar, I'm very disturbed that we have more [media] articles about toxins in the home than the fact that we don__ have universal prenatal care, she says. __e__e moved from collective concern about infant and child welfare into this very privatized focus on __y child_ and this intensive child-rearing.