SMALL ANIMALS | WRITTEN AND READ BY KIM BROOKS | Macmillan Audio

SMALL ANIMALS

PARENTHOOD IN THE AGE OF FEAR

WRITTEN AND READ BY KIM BROOKS

SMALL ANIMALS

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Small Animals interrogates how we weigh risk as parents, how we judge one another’s parenting and what the costs might be — not just to parents, but to children, too —of a culture of constant surveillance.”
—New York Times Book Review


One morning, Kim Brooks made a split-second decision to leave her four-year old son in the car while she ran into a store. What happened would consume the next several years of her life and spur her to investigate the broader role America’s culture of fear plays in parenthood. In Small Animals, Brooks asks, Of all the emotions inherent in parenting, is there any more universal or profound than fear? Why have our notions of what it means to be a good parent changed so radically? In what ways do these changes impact the lives of parents, children, and the structure of society at large? And what, in the end, does the rise of fearful parenting tell us about ourselves?

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