Behavior: Doing Away with Sex Stereotypes

More Dad, less Mom, urges a guide to raising liberated children

For ten years, the question that has dogged the women's movement has been "But who will raise the children?" The answer from feminists: both parents. More Dad and less Mom, they say, would result in greater equality, not only for parents but also for the next generation. This is fine in theory, but the actual how-to-do-it has remained a puzzle. Now the first real guide to nonsexist child raising has appeared: Letty Cottin Pogrebin's innovative and exhaustive Growing Up Free: Raising Your Child in the 80's (McGraw-Hill; $15.95). Even the eminent...

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