The power to act is two-sided in that it refers to the parent's ability to initiate (having children or responding to their actions) and to the ability to suffer consequences (irreversibility and unpredictability). The book argues that the best way of responding to these essential limits is for the parent to develop the interrelation between wisdom, ethicality and self-mastery, that is, practical wisdom.

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Augustana University College, Canada

Kieran M Bonner

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KIERAN BONNER

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Book Title: Power and Parenting
Authors: Kieran M Bonner
Series Title: Edinburgh Studies in Culture and Society
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230375123
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1998
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37512-3Published: 14 September 1998
Series ISSN: 2947-0757
Series E-ISSN: 2947-0765
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 177
Topics: Family, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Cultural Studies, Sociology of Family, Youth and Aging, Social Care

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

The Problem of Contemporary Parenting

Parental Power and the Human Condition

Producing the High Achiever: Hobbes and Power

Methods and Parenting: Bourgeois Power

PET and the Ethics of Parenting

Competence, Wisdom and Effective Parenting

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