Stockard, Jean2024-06-032024-06-031991https://hdl.handle.net/1794/294942 pagesSylvia Hewlett's book, When the Bough Breaks: The Cost of Neglecting Our Children, is written for a general lay audience but should also be of interest to scholars concerned with children and the family. ln a lively and readable style Hewlett, an economist by training, details the way American society shortchanges its children - both poor and middle class - and describes concrete policy recommendations for how we might begin to rectify these problems.en-USCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USneglectchildrenbook reviewOther