What Every Child Would Like His Parents to Know, by Lee Salk. New York: David McKay, 1972, 239 pp., $6.95

Abstract

Dr. Salk opens this book with an eloquent plea for greater help for parents in handling the "normal emotional problems" which are part of the everyday lives of their children. He puts this plea in the context of the prevalence of psychiatric illness in the United States today, coupled with the drastic shortage of enough professionals to give adequate care and treatment. Dr. Salk is not the first to seek to answer this problem by better early prevention via improved child-rearing practices by parents, who are "the first line of emotional care"; but he states the case much more effectively than most, and he goes on to provide in this book one of the most thorough, clear, and effective guides available for helping parents achieve such good child-rearing practices.