A professor at the University of California, Berkeley, Paula Fass has written a book, “The End of American Childhood: A History of Parenting from Life on the Frontier to the Managed Child,” in which she examines American childhood and parenting from the nation’s founding to the present day.An overarching theme of this history as Fass describes it, was the change of parenting practices informed by the goals of independence, self-definition, and individual success to the [...]