Handbook of parenting. / Vol 4 [social conditions, applied parenting]

444 Pages·2002·5.26 MB·English

by  Marc H Bornstein

Handbook of Parenting
Volume 4
Social Conditions and
Applied Parenting
Edited by
Marc H. Bornstein
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Handbook of Parenting
Volume 4
Social Conditions and Applied Parenting
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Handbook of Parenting
Second Edition
Volume 4
Social Conditions and Applied Parenting
Edited by
Marc H. Bornstein
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
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Contents:v.1.Childrenandparenting—v.2.Biologyandecologyofparenting—v.3.Being
andbecomingaparent—v.4.Socialconditionsandappliedparenting—v.5.practicalissues
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Contents of Volume 4:
Social Conditions and Applied
Parenting
Preface ix
ContentsofVolume1 xiii
ContentsofVolume2 xv
ContentsofVolume3 xvii
ContentsofVolume5 xxi
AbouttheAuthorsinVolume4 xxv
PARTI:SOCIALCONDITIONSOFPARENTING
Chapter 1 EthnicandMinorityParenting
CynthiaGarc´ıaCollandLeeM.Pachter 1
Chapter 2 ParentingAmongLatinoFamiliesintheU.S.
RobinHarwood,BirgitLeyendecker,VivianCarlson, 21
MarysolAsencio,andAmyMiller
Chapter 3 AfricanAmericanParenting
HarrietteP.McAdoo 47
Chapter 4 ParentingofAsians
RuthChaoandVivianTseng 59
Chapter 5 ParentsinPoverty
KatherineA.MagnusonandGregJ.Duncan 95
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Chapter 6 ParentingandSocialNetworks
MoncrieffCochranandStarrNiego 123
PARTII:APPLIEDISSUESINPARENTING
Chapter 7 ParentingCompetence
DouglasM.TetiandMargoA.Candelaria 149
Chapter 8 MaternalDeprivation
MichaelRutter 181
Chapter 9 MaritalRelationshipsandParenting
JohnH.Grych 203
Chapter10 MaritalConflict,Repair,andParenting
BeverlyJ.WilsonandJohnM.Gottman 227
Chapter11 ParentingWithaSensoryorPhysicalDisability
KathrynP.Meadow-Orlans 259
Chapter12 ParentalPsychopathology
CarolynZahn-Waxler,SunitaDuggal,andReutGruber 295
Chapter13 SubstanceAbuseandParenting
LindaC.MayesandSeanD.Truman 329
Chapter14 ParentingandChildMaltreatment
SandraT.Azar 361
Chapter15 ParentEducation
CamilleSmith,RuthPerou,andCatherineLesesne 389
AuthorIndex AI-1
SubjectIndex SI-1
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Preface
ThisneweditionoftheHandbookofParentingappearsatatimethatismomentousinthehistory
of parenting. The family generally, and parenting specifically, are today in a greater state of flux,
question, and redefinition than perhaps ever before. We are witnessing the emergence of striking
permutations on the theme of parenting: blended families, lesbian and gay parents, teen versus
fiftiesfirst-timemomsanddads.Onecannotbutbeawedonthebiologicalfrontbytechnologythat
nowrenderspostmenopausalwomencapableofchildbearingandwiththepossibilityofdesigning
babies.Similarly,onthesociologicalfront,singleparenthoodisamodern-dayfactoflife,adult–child
dependencyisontherise,andparentsareeverlesscertainoftheirroles,eveninthefaceofrising
environmentalandinstitutionaldemandsthattheytakeincreasingresponsibilityfortheiroffspring.
TheHandbookofParentingisconcernedwithallfacetsofparenting.
Despitethefactthatmostpeoplebecomeparentsandeveryonewhohaseverlivedhashadparents,
parenting remains a most mystifying subject. Who is ultimately responsible for parenting? Does
parentingcomenaturally,ormustwelearnhowtoparent?Howdoparentsconceiveofparenting?
Of childhood? What does it mean to parent a preterm baby, twins, or a child with a disability?
To be a younger or an older parent, or one who is divorced, disabled, or drug abusing? What do
theories in psychology (psychoanalysis, personality theory, and behavior genetics, for example)
contributetoourunderstandingofparenting?Whatarethegoalsparentshaveforthemselves?For
theirchildren?Whatarethefunctionsofparents’beliefs?Ofparents’behaviors?Whataccountsfor
parents’ believing or behaving in similar ways? What accounts for all the attitudes and actions of
parents that differ? How do children influence their parents? How do personality, knowledge, and
worldviewaffectparenting?Howdosocialstatus,culture,andhistoryshapeparenthood?Howcan
parentseffectivelyrelatetoschools,daycare,theirchildren’spediatricians?
ThesearesomeofthequestionsaddressedinthissecondeditionoftheHandbookofParenting...
forthisisabookonhowtoparentasmuchasitisoneonwhatbeingaparentisallabout.
Put succinctly, parents create people. It is the entrusted and abiding task of parents to prepare
theiroffspringforthephysical,psychosocial,andeconomicconditionsinwhichtheywilleventu-
ally fare and, it is hoped, flourish. Amidst the many influences on child development, parents are
the“finalcommonpathway”tochildren’sdevelopmentandstature,adjustmentandsuccess.Human
socialinquiry—atleastsinceAthenianinterestinSpartanchildrearingpractices—hasalways,asa
matter of course, included reports of parenting. Yet Freud opined that childrearing is one of three
“impossible professions”—the other two being governing nations and psychoanalysis. And one
encounters as many views as the number of people one asks about the relative merits of being an
at-homeoraworkingmother,aboutwhetherdaycare,familycare,orparentcareisbestforachild,
aboutwhethergoodparentingreflectsintuitionorexperience.
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