Human Development across Lives and Generations: The Potential for Change

by Edited by P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale , Kathleen Kiernan , Ruth J. Friedman

• ISBN13: 9780521828840
• ISBN10: 0521828848
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-08-02
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Our volume examines the potential for change during the life course and across generations. We address the possibilities for promoting healthy development from infancy to adulthood in three key domains: human capital, partnership behavior, and child and adolescent development. Drawing from the disciplines of economics, demography, sociology, psychology, and psychiatry, our volume takes a multidisciplinary approach to review relevant empirical work regarding aspects of change and continuity, and the ways in which policies and programs might bring about change. We feature chapters from leading researchers in five countries to address these important issues. The main purpose of our volume is to link and integrate the lessons learned from multiple disciplines about change and continuity in order to examine how our nations can improve life chances.

Table of Contents

Part I. Introduction and Overview: 1. Human development across lives and generations: the potential for change

2. Life-course development: the interplay of social-selection and social causations within and across generations

Part II. Human Capital: 3. An overview of economic and social opportunities and disadvantage in European households

4. Parental, childhood, and early adult legacies in the emergence of adult social exclusion: evidence on what matters from a British cohort

5. Individual and parent based intervention strategies for promoting human capital and positive behavior

Part III. Partnership Behavior: 6. Cohabitation and divorce across nations and generations

7. The intergenerational transmission of couple instability

8. Strengthening partnerships and families

Part IV. Psychological Health and Development: 9. Intergenerational continuities and discontinuities in psychological problems

10. Discontinuity and stability of iq's: the French adoption studies

11. What do we know about children's development from theory, intervention, and policy?

Part V. Conclusion: 12. Human development and the potential for change from the perspective of multiple disciplines: what have we learned?