Word: spock
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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America's two most famous pediatricians, T. Berry Brazelton of Harvard and Benjamin Spock, worry about the disappearance of discipline, particularly when both parents work. "Parents don't want to spend what little time they have with their children reprimanding them," says Spock. "This encourages children to push limits and test parental authority." Brazelton is also concerned that working mothers are so overwhelmed by guilt that they "detach | from the baby, because it's the only way they have of coping...