Pediatrician Dr. Benjamin Spock interacting with children in 1979. His bestselling book, "The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care," was published in 1946 and helped alter ideas about child ...

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 ...

A new generation has its own Dr. Spock — and a very different take on parenting Author Emily Oster, right, at a book reading in Washington last year.