Families Count: Effects on Child and Adolescent Development

by Edited by Alison Clarke-Stewart , Judy Dunn

• ISBN13: 9780521612296
• ISBN10: 0521612292
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This book is concerned with the question of how families matter in young people’s development - a question of obvious interest and importance to a wide range of readers, which has serious policy implication. A series of key current topics concerning families are examined by the top international scholars in the field, including the key risks affecting children, individual differences in their resilience, links between families and peers, the connections between parental work and children’s family lives, the impact of childcare, divorce, and parental separation, grandparents, and new family forms such as lesbian and surrogate mother families. The latest research findings are brought together with discussion of policy issues raised.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	ix
Introduction	1	(4)
PART ONE. RISK AND RESILIENCE
1. How Families Matter in Child Development: Reflections from Research on Risk and Resilience	5	(21)
Ann S. Masten and Anne Shaffer
2. The Promotion of Resilience in the Face of Adversity	26	(27)
Michael Rutter
3. Identifying Risk and Protective Factors for Healthy Child Development	53	(26)
Arnold Sameroff
PART TWO. PEERS AND PARENTS
4. The Influence of Family and Peer Relationships in the Development of Competence during Adolescence	79	(25)
W. Andrew Collins and Glenn I. Roisman
5. Toward a Dynamic Developmental Model of the Role of Parents and Peers in Early Onset Substance Use	104	(31)
Kenneth A. Dodge, Patrick S. Malone, Jennifer E. Lansford, Shari Miller-Johnson, Gregory S. Pettit, and John E. Bates
PART THREE. WORK AND FAMILY
6. Mothers and Fathers at Work: Implications for Families and Children	135	(20)
Ann C. Crouter
7. The Family-Child-Care Mesosystem	155	(24)
Kathleen McCartney
PART FOUR. DISCORD AND DIVORCE
8. Marital Discord, Divorce, and Children's Well-Being: Results from a 20-Year Longitudinal Study of Two Generations	179	(24)
Paul R. Amato
9. The Influence of Conflict, Marital Problem Solving and Parenting on Children's Adjustment in Nondivorced, Divorced and Remarried Families	203	(35)
E. Mavis Hetherington
10. Adolescents' Development in High-Conflict and Separated Families: Evidence from a German Longitudinal Study	238	(35)
Sabine Walper and Katharina Beckh
PART FIVE. NEW AND EXTENDED FAMILY FORMS
11. New Family Forms	273	(26)
Susan Golombok
12. Grandparents, Grandchildren, and Family Change in Contemporary Britain	299	(22)
Judy Dunn, Emma Fergusson, and Barbara Maughan
PART SIX. CONCLUSIONS AND COMMENTARIES
13. What Have We Learned: Proof That Families Matter, Policies for Families and Children, Prospects for Future Research	321	(16)
Alison Clarke-Stewart
14. Research and Policy: Second Looks at Views of Development, Families, and Communities, and at Translations into Practice	337	(24)
Jacqueline J. Goodnow
15. Prognosis: Policy and Process	361	(10)
Robert A. Hinde
Index	371