Kids these days: the changing state of childhood.(Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood)(Book Review)

From: The Christian Century | Date: March 22, 2005| Author: Wallace, Catherine M. | Copyright information

Huck's Raft: A History of American Childhood. By Steven Mintz. Belknap, 464 pp., $29.95.

THE PATH FROM innocence to experience is inevitably complicated: we are tempted to think that the world has become treacherous, not that we ourselves were once blazingly naive. If we fail to recognize our own glorious grandiosity, then as the years go by we are liable to fall victim to a peculiarly hazardous nostalgia: yearning for a past that never existed.

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