Download or read book Ties That Stress written by David Elkind and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998-07-21 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What has happened to the American family in the last few decades? And what are these changes doing to our children? David Elkind, renowned child psychologist and author of The Hurried Child, has devoted his career to these urgent questions. This eloquent book puts together all the puzzling facts and conflicting accounts to show us as never before what the American family has become.