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Price of Privilege How Parental Pressure & Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected & Unhappy Kids

by Madeline Levine
Price of Privilege How Parental Pressure & Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected & Unhappy Kids

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Madeline Levine has been a practicingpsychologist for twenty-five years, but it was only recently that she began to observe a new breed of unhappy teenager. When a bright, personable fifteen-year-old girl, from a loving and financially comfortable family, came into her office with the word empty carved into her left forearm, Levine was startled. This girl and her message seemed to embody a disturbing pattern Levine had been observing. Her teenage patients were bright, socially skilled, and loved by their affluent parents. But behind a veneer of achievement and charm, many of these teens suffered severe emotional problems. What was going on?

Conversations with educators and clinicians across the country as well as meticulous research confirmed Levine's suspicions that something was terribly amiss. Numerous studies show that privileged adolescents are experiencing epidemic rates of depression, anxietydisorders, and substance abuse—rates that are higherthan those of any other socioeconomic group ofyoung people in this country. The various elements of a perfect storm—materialism, pressure to achieve, perfectionism, disconnection—are combining to create a crisis in America's culture of affluence. This culture is as unmanageable for parents—mothers in particular—as it is for their children. While many privileged kids project confidence and know how to make a goodimpression, alarming numbers lack the basic foundation of psychological development: an authentic sense of self. Even parents often miss the signs of significant emotional problems in their "star" children.

In this controversial look at privileged families, Levine offers thoughtful, practical advice as she explodes one child-rearing myth after another. With empathy and candor, she identifies parenting practices that are toxic to healthy self-development and that have contributed to epidemic levels of depression, anxiety, and substance abuse in the most unlikely place—the affluent family.

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“In this insightful book, Levine eschews the temptation to dismiss problems of privileged teens as overindulgence.” Book List

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“[Written] with clarity and understanding of the culture of affluence and its pitfalls for parents.” Library Journal

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“Fresh and important ideas about parenting in the age of affluence…” Mary Pipher, Ph.D., author of Reviving Ophelia

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“Levine offers chapter after chapter of practical advice for dealing with family problems.” Connecticut Post Online

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“[Madeline Levines] ideas may be uncomfortable for parents to read, but theyre a wonderful wake-up call.” Bay Area Insider

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“Useful...clear, sensitive...” Publisher's Weekly

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“This book has resonated in affluent communities all over the country. [Levine is] clearly on to something.” Atlanta Journal-Constitution

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“Her writing is warm and carefully thoughtful.” Toronto Star

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“...[an] impassioned wake-up call to parents...” The Gazette (Montreal)

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“She treats her subjects as well as her subject with compassion and understanding.” Chicago Tribune

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“Levines book explores some troubling and intriguing issues that certainly are worth pondering and discussing.” Marin Independent Journal

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In this ground-breaking book on the children of affluence, a well-known clinical psychologist exposes the epidemic of emotional problems that are disabling America's privileged youth, thanks, in large part, to normalized, intrusive parenting that stunts the crucial development of the self.

In recent years, numerous studies have shown that bright, charming, seemingly confident and socially skilled teenagers from affluent, loving families are experiencing epidemic rates of depression, substance abuse, and anxiety disorders--rates higher than in any other socioeconomic group of American adolescents. Materialism, pressure to achieve, perfectionism, and disconnection are combining to create a perfect storm that is devastating children of privilege and their parents alike.

In this eye-opening, provocative, and essential book, clinical psychologist Madeline Levine explodes one child-rearing myth after another. With empathy and candor, she identifies toxic cultural influences and well-intentioned, but misguided, parenting practices that are detrimental to a child's healthy self-development. Her thoughtful, practical advice provides solutions that will enable parents to help their emotionally troubled "star" child cultivate an authentic sense of self.


About the Author

Madeline Levine, PhD, is a clinician, consultant, and educator; the author of the New York Times bestseller The Price of Privilege; and a cofounder of Challenge Success, a project of the Stanford School of Education that addresses education reform, student well-being,and parent education. She lives outside San Francisco with her husband and is the proud mother of three newly minted adult sons.

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ISBN:
9780060595845
Binding:
Hardcover
Publication date:
07/03/2006
Publisher:
HARPERCOLLINS PUBLISHERS
Pages:
246
Height:
.94IN
Width:
6.20IN
Thickness:
1.00
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
2006
UPC Code:
2800060595847
Author:
Ph.D. Madeline Levine
Author:
Madeline Levine
Author:
Ph.D., Madeline Levine
Author:
PH. D. Levine
Author:
Madeline, PhD Levine
Author:
Madeline Levine
Author:
Madeline Phd Levine
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Conduct of life
Subject:
Child Care and Parenting-Parenting Teens
Subject:
Child rearing

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