The Rise of 'Fearful Parenting'

The Brian Lehrer Show | Aug 23, 2018

Kim Brooks, writer and the author of Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear (Flatiron Books, 2018), talks about how the notions of what it means to be a good parent have changed in America's broader "culture of fear."

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