Raising Generation Rx

Download or read book Raising Generation Rx written by Linda M. Blum and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2015-03-13 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some 22 percent of American children today have some form of disability. In this highly important book, Linda Blum plunges us into the world of their worried mothers, deciphering labels and pills, fending off stigma, tirelessly advocating for their children. Married or alone, affluent or poor, such mothers often feel blamed and too rarely in the presence of real help. A carefully researched and deeply sensitive portrait of mothers on the Rx frontier.