Hold on to your kids: why parents need to matter more than peers

pt. 1. The phenomenon of peer orientation

1. Why parents matter more than ever

2. Skewed attachments, subverted instincts

3. Why we've come undone

pt. 2. Sabotaged : how peer orientation undermines parenting

4. The power to parent is slipping away

5. From help to hindrance : when attachment works against us

6. Counterwill : why children become disobedient

7. The flatlining of culture

pt. 3. Stuck in immaturity : how peer orientation stunts healthy development

8. The dangerous flight from feeling

9. Stuck in immaturity

10. A legacy of aggression

11. The making of bullies and victims

12. A sexual turn

13. Unteachable students

pt. 4. How to hold on to our kids (or how to reclaim them)

14. Collecting our children

15. Preserve the ties that empower

16. Discipline that does not divide

pt. 5. Preventing peer orientation

17. Don't court the competition

18. Re-create the attachment village

pt. 6. A postscript for the digital age (how to hold on to kids in the era of the internet, cell phones, and videogames)

19. The digital revolution bent out of shape

20. A matter of timing

Glossary.