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"Perhaps it is time for a paradigm shift in how we understand the tumultuous time we call adolescence. Dr. Epstein's landmark book may be just what we need to help enhance our understanding of and better serve those moving through this complex period of life." —Drew Pinsky, MD
"Epstein argues effectively that American culture collaborates is artificially extending childhood through public schooling and labor laws." —lewrockwell.com
"Epstein's 500-page book is much too detailed to overview in a short column, but in my mind, his most damning accusation is that, for purely financial reasons, we are willing to take our young and separate them almost completely from the adult world for well over 18 years, giving them only peers to influence their growth and development." —The News-Sentinel, Indiana
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This groundbreaking book argues that adolescence is an unnecessary period of life that people are better off without. Robert Epstein, former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today, shows that teen turmoil is caused by outmoded systems put into place a century ago which destroyed the continuum between childhood and adulthood. Where this continuum still exists in other countries, there is no adolescence. Isolated from adults, American teens learn everything they know from their media-dominated peers—“the last people on earth they should be learning from,” says Epstein. Epstein explains that our teens are highly capable—in some ways more capable than adults—and argues strongly against “infantilizing” young people. We must rediscover “the adult in every teen,” he says, by giving young people adult authority and responsibility as soon as they can demonstrate readiness. This landmark book will change the thinking about teens for decades to come.
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