Hey Parents: Leave Those Kids Alone!

KUER 90.1 | By Doug Fabrizio

Published March 21, 2014 at 3:15 PM MDT

Like most middle-class American parents, Hanna Rosin pays a lot of attention to her children. But it hasn’t always been that way. Just a generation ago, kids enjoyed immense freedom from adult supervision. Rosin says that today's kids are under perpetual surveillance. In a new article in The Atlantic magazine, she investigates why Americans are so protective of their children, and she'll join us Monday to talk about how our obsession with child safety has whitewashed childhood of its independence, risk and joys of discovery.

Read Hanna Rosin's article "Hey Parents: Leave Those Kids Alone!" It's the cover story in The Atlantic's April 2014 issue.

Hanna Rosin is an Atlantic national correspondent and author of the book The End of Men [Amazon|Indiebound].

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Doug Fabrizio

Doug Fabrizio has been reporting for KUER News since 1987, and became News Director in 1993. In 2001, he became host and executive producer of KUER's RadioWest, a one hour conversation/call-in show on KUER 90.1 in Salt Lake City. He has gained a reputation for his thoughtful style. He has interviewed everyone from Isabel Allende to the Dalai Lama, and from Madeleine Albright to Desmond Tutu. His interview skills landed him a spot as a guest host of the national NPR program, "Talk of the Nation." He has won numerous awards for his reporting and for his work with RadioWest and KUED's Utah NOW from such organizations as the Society of Professional Journalists, the Utah Broadcasters Association, the Public Radio News Directors Association and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.

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