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This essay explores the dubious parenting and child-rearing advice and education given to parents in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Books, manuals, magazines, pamphlets, and other ephemera are reviewed and discussed. Additionally, scientific management and behaviorism are discussed as a context for the questionable parenting and child-rearing practices given to parents during this time period.
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Kopp, D.M. (2018). “Pregnant Mothers Should Avoid Thinking of Ugly People”: Parenting Education and Child-Rearing Advice of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. In: Famous and (Infamous) Workplace and Community Training. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59753-3_7
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