Handbook of parenting. / Volume 1, Children and parenting

458 Pages·2002·5.464 MB·English

by  Marc H Bornstein

Handbook of Parenting
Volume 1
Children and Parenting
Edited by
Marc H. Bornstein
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Handbook of Parenting
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Children and Parenting
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Handbook of Parenting
Second Edition
Volume 1
Children and Parenting
Edited by
Marc H. Bornstein
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
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Handbookofparenting/editedbyMarcH.Bornstein.—2nded.
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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 1:
Children and Parenting
Preface ix
Foreword
EdwardF.Zigler xiii
Foreword
JeromeKagan xvii
ContentsofVolume2 xxi
ContentsofVolume3 xxiii
ContentsofVolume4 xxvii
ContentsofVolume5 xxix
AbouttheAuthorsinVolume1 xxxiii
PARTI:PARENTINGCHILDRENANDOLDERPEOPLE
Chapter 1 ParentingInfants
MarcH.Bornstein 3
Chapter 2 ParentingToddlers
CarolynPopeEdwardsandWen–LiLiu 45
Chapter 3 ParentingDuringMiddleChildhood
W.AndrewCollins,StephanieD.Madsen, 73
andAmySusman-Stillman
Chapter 4 ParentingAdolescents
LaurenceSteinbergandJenniferS.Silk 103
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Chapter 5 Parent–ChildRelationshipsinAdulthoodandLaterYears
StevenH.ZaritandDavidJ.Eggebeen 135
PARTII:PARENTINGCHILDRENOFVARYINGSTATUS
Chapter 6 ParentingSiblings
WyndolFurmanandRichardLanthier 165
Chapter 7 ParentingGirlsandBoys
CampbellLeaper 189
Chapter 8 ParentingTwinsandtheGeneticsofParenting
HughLyttonwithLinGallagher 227
Chapter 9 ChildTemperamentandParenting
SamuelP.Putnam,AnnV.Sanson,andMaryK.Rothbart 255
Chapter10 ParentingandChildDevelopmentinAdoptiveFamilies
DavidM.BrodzinskyandEllenPinderhughes 279
Chapter11 FosterParenting
JeffreyHaugaardandCindyHazan 313
Chapter12 ParentingChildrenBornPreterm
SusanGoldbergandBarbaraDiVitto 329
Chapter13 ParentingChildrenwithMentalRetardation
RobertM.Hodapp 355
Chapter14 ParentsofAggressiveandWithdrawnChildren
KennethH.RubinandKimB.Burgess 383
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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