The Times, They Are A Changing: A Review of Raising Children in a Socially Toxic Environment

Authors

Susan M. Sheridan, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Richard J. Cowan, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Tanya Meegan, University of Utah

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

1-1-1999

Comments

Published in School Psychology Quarterly, 14:4 (1999), pp. 428–432. Copyright © 1999 American Psychological Association. Used by permission. “This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record.” http://www.apa.org/journals/spq/

Abstract

Rarely does a book come along that we believe to be essential reading for all psychologists, educators, child care workers, physicians, clergy, and concerned community members. Garbarino’s Raising Children in a Socially Toxic Environment is one such book. In this book, Garbarino sets out to offer his views on what childhood ought to be, how children map their own worlds (thus define, themselves), what their basic needs are, the levels in which those needs are being met, as well as offer suggestions for ways in which readers can change the “toxic environment” to aid in the healthy development of children and youth.