Novels on Parents and Children 

Joy Luck Club
by Amy Tan

The Complete Book of Absolutely Perfect Baby and Child Care 
by Elinor Goulding Smith

I Stand here Ironing
by Tillie Olsen (a short story)

Kids: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Raise Young Children
by Meredith F Small

Our Babies, Ourselves
by Meredith F Small

Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? A Parent's Guide to Raising Multicultural Children.
by Donna Jackson Nakazawa

The Pressured Child: Helping Your Child Find Success in School and Life
by Michael Thompson

Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of Aggression in Girls
by Rachel Simmons

Liberation's Children: Parents and Kids in a Postmodern Age
by Kay Hymowitz 

The Irreducible Needs of Children: What Every Child Must Have to Grow, Learn and Flourish
by T Berry Brazelton and Stanley I Greenspan

Raising America: Experts parents and a Century
of Advice about Children
by Anne Hulbert

The Epidemic: The Rot of American Culture,
Absentee and Permissive Parenting, and the
Resultant Plague of Joyless, Selfish Children.
by Robert Shaw MD.

The Nuture Assumption
by Judith Rich Harris

Children and Animals
by Gene Myers

Get Out of My Life but First Could You Drive
Me and Cheryl to the Mall?
by Anthony E. Wolf