Abstract
In January 1950, the cover of Parents’ Magazine trumpeted the new role of children in the social and political landscape. Declaring, “This is the CHILDREN’S DECADE,” the magazine featured a pair of Godlike adult hands tenderly guiding the Earth into the tiny outstretched hands of a child. Below the image, accompanying text reads, “The U.S. is richer in children than ever before. Let’s give them good homes, good schools, good health!” In the accompanying editorial, American Parents’ Committee chairman George J. Hecht states, “Because in the next 10 years the United States will have a record child population, we are now entering upon what can well be termed the Children’s Decade.”1
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Scahill, A. (2015). It Takes a Child to Raze a Village. In: The Revolting Child in Horror Cinema. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137481320_6
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