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adolescence
alcohol
american culture
attraction
Author_Amy T. Schalet
autonomy
boys
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child
children
connection
control
cultural studies
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familial relationships
families
gender
girls
growing up
individualism
interviews
love
lust
men
netherlands
parent-child
parent-teen
parenting
parents
romance
romantic
sex
sexuality education
sociologist
sociology
teenagers
teens
united states of america
usa
women
youth
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- ISBN 9780226736181
- Weight: 595g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2011
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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For American parents, teenage sex is something to be feared and forbidden: most would never consider allowing their children to have sex at home, and sex is a frequent source of family conflict. In the Netherlands, where teenage pregnancies are far less frequent than in the United States, parents aim above all for family cohesiveness, often permitting young couples to sleep together and providing them with contraceptives. Drawing on extensive interviews with parents and teens, "Not Under My Roof" offers an unprecedented, intimate account of the different ways that girls and boys in both countries negotiate love, lust, and growing up. Tracing the roots of the parents' divergent attitudes, Amy Schalet reveals how they grow out of their respective conceptions of the self, relationships, gender, autonomy, and authority. She provides a probing analysis of the way family culture shapes not just sex but also alcohol consumption and parent-teen relationships.
Avoiding caricatures of permissive Europeans and puritanical Americans, Schalet shows that the Dutch require self-control from teens and parents, while Americans guide their children toward autonomous adulthood at the expense of the family bond.
Amy Schalet is assistant professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
