Dr. Benjamin Spock: Growing Up the Hard Way

Overview

Few books have been so widely read as Dr Spock's controversial Baby and Child Care. but the authorfound it hard to practise what he preached with his own children. Drawing on home-movie footage of Spock with his family, and interviews with his two sons, tonight's film traces the origins of Spock's philosophies, and shows howthe man once blamed for the permissive society is now regarded as the voice of tradition.