Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Matter Book

Preface Acknowledgments

PART ONE
The Phenomenon of Peer Orientation
1 — In Our Own Backyard
2 — A Matter of Attachment
3 — An Attachment Affair
4 — Why We’ve Come Undone

PART TWO
The Legacy of Peer Orientation (Why We Must Hold On)
5 — The Power to Parent Is Slipping Away
6 — Help Turned to Hinderance
7 — Obedience Turned to Resistance
8 — The Dangerous Flight from Vulnerability
9 — Stuck in Immaturity
10 — A Faulty Assumption
11 — The Flatlining of Culture
12 — A Legacy of Aggression
13 — Bullies Begotten
14 — A Sexual Turn
15 — Unteachable Students

PART THREE
How to Hold On to Our Children
16 — Collecting Our Children
17 — Don’t Court the Competition
18 — Preserve the Ties That Empower
19 — Discipline That Does Not Divide
20 — Create a Village of Attachment

Endnotes Index