In 1946, just as the baby boom begins, Dr. Spock writes Baby and Child Care, a common-sense book about childhood ailments. The pediatrician advises parents to reject harsh discipline, and be more ...

Every generation has its parent whisperer. My mother and father had Benjamin Spock, the pediatrician who promoted the revolutionary idea that children should be cherished and held, not whipped or ...

Every generation has its parent whisperer. My mother and father had Benjamin Spock, the pediatrician who promoted the revolutionary idea that children should be cherished and held, not whipped or ...

Every generation has its parent whisperer. My mother and father had Benjamin Spock, the pediatrician who promoted the revolutionary idea that children should be cherished and held, not whipped or ...

Benjamin I. Spock and four other men ... among the draft-resistance activities cited. On trial with Spock, 65, the nationally-known pediatrician, are the Rev. William Sloane Coffin Jr., ...