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No Child Left Alone: Getting the Government Out of Parenting Hardcover – August 16, 2016

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Uncle Sam is the worst helicopter parent in America.

Children are taken from their parents because they are obese. Parents are arrested for letting their children play outside alone. Sledding and swaddling are banned. From games to school to breast-feeding to daycare, the overbearing bureaucratic state keeps getting between kids and their parents.

The state’s safety, hygiene, and health regulations rule, and the government’s judgment may not coincide with yours. Which foods and drinks to send to school, what toys to buy, whether to breast- or bottle-feed babies are all choices that used to be left to you and me. Not anymore.

As a mom to four kids, I should be used to it, but I’m not. All the government-mandated parenting gets under my skin. And I’m not alone.

No Child Left Alone explores the growing problem of an intrusive, interfering government and highlights those parents—all the Captain Mommies and Captain Daddies across America—fighting to take back control over their families.
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Captain Mommy \’kap-t?n ‘mäm-ee\ n. idiom Mother who encounters and resists the excessive intrusion into family life, most often through the use of overly expansive definitions of the state’s role in protecting children. Example: Lenore Skenazy, founder of the Free-Range Kids movement is the first Captain Mommy.
Captain Daddy \’kap-t?n ‘däd-ee\ n. idiom Male version of a Captain Mommy.


"I'd like to let my kids walk to school, but..."

But what?

You're the parent! They're your kids! You want to give them the freedom you loved—to walk, explore, stay home, go out, or even, once in a while, to get lost or goof up. To do things on their own.

But...

As Captain Mommy knows all too well, it's no longer straightforward.

For the first five years after I founded the Free-Range Kids movement, parents who wanted to let their kids walk to school would end that sentence with, "But I don't want them to get kidnapped." Fair enough...even though the chances of that happening are so outlandishly small, that if for some reason you actually WANTED your child to be kidnapped by a stranger, do you know how long you'd have to keep him outside, unsupervised, for that to be statistically likely to happen?

About 750,000 years. (And after the first 100,000 you really couldn't even call him a "kid" anymore.) But that's for another book.

—from the Foreword by Lenore Skenazy

About the Author

Abby W. Schachter is a regular contributor to The Weekly Standard, Acculturated, Pittsburgh Tribune Review, and Reason, among other publications. She blogs at captainmommy.com. She lives in Pittsburgh with her artist husband, Professor Ben Schachter, and their four children.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Encounter Books (August 16, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 280 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1594038619
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1594038617
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.25 x 10 inches
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Very well written. For example, you won't find ...
    Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2016
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    Very well written. For example, you won't find many books on this topic that quote a poem about helicopter parenting from the 1930s (!!), and turn the poem on its head with a modern interpretation of who is guilty of overparenting. I didn't agree with all the points made in the book, and some of the things the author cites as alarming are things that I could see a logic for. But the book definitely makes a case that regulation and intervention have at times run amok (the last chapter, which chronicles the fact that child protection services have put parents in a legal situation where they are guilty until proven innocent, is chilling). An eye-opener.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars A lot to think about
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    This well researched and informative book gives one a lot to think about concerning how the government affects the lives of families and children. The anecdotes clearly show how laws and rules meant to protect children can be disruptive to families. How do we balance public safety and the individual's choices? A very worthwhile read.
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    Abby Schachter takes on some important issues facing today's parents. This book explores the government takeover of our children's lives that we may not notice if we aren't paying attention. Time to wake up to the encroaching interference. Well researched and presented by a top journalist and editorial writer.
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    Well written, well researched! It should be required reading before running for office:)
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