It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us

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Ten years ago, Hillary Rodham Clinton's groundbreaking book took America by storm and changed the way we thought about raising our families. Now, a decade later, Clinton's "It Takes A Village" is more important thanever. This new edition features photographs and a new introduction from Senator Clinton where she reflects on how the American village has changed over the last few years. She discusses the issues of increasing importance and shows us where we have made improvement and where there is still work to be done. A timeless classic, "It Takes A Village" again reminds us that the way we raise our families today will determine the way our country faces the perils of tomorrow.

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Written when Hillary Clinton was the First Lady, IT TAKES A VILLAGE acknowledges the many challenges and difficulties of raising children in America and proposes an ideal of broad community responsibility for the total upbringing of healthy and secure children. Clinton draws on her own experiences as a child, mother, and lawyer, as well as those of concerned parents, teachers, and advocates for children--and she takes the time to listen to the important lessons that children can teach adults as well.

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This tenth anniversary edition of IT TAKES A VILLAGE includes a new introduction, written by Senator Hillary Clinton, which addresses the many changes in American society since it was first published, and which underscores the continuing relevance of the basic idea of the book, whose title is derived from an old African parable.