In an essay to appear in this Sunday's NY Times Book Review, Julie Just reviews "Young Adult Lit", a genre of writing that is mostly concerned with teenagers. Her main point is the emergence of parents in this genre as fully dysfunctional, potentially dangerous, self-centered, uncaring, clueless, and strangely disconnected from their children, indeed, they would be irrelevant if not for the inhibiting effect they have on children, namely, keeping them from realizing their potential on their own. This is perhaps a harsh and somewhat inaccurate characterization of the general but I am not really familiar with it. For the essay, see: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/books/review/Just-t.html?nl=books&emc=booksupdateema3&pagewanted=all
I wonder if anyone has systematically compared how these portrayals in fiction (realistic or not) compare to the portrayals of parents in relevant psychology textbooks, such as development, adolescent, and lifespan psychology. It might be of interest to see how familiar students are with books in this genre which might predispose them to accept or reject the presentation of parents in psychology textbooks. -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=1698 or send a blank email to leave-1698-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
