Preface | |
Acknowledgments | |
Understanding Parents and Child Rearing | |
Introduction: From Beliefs to Evidence | |
Parenting Beliefs Throughout History | |
Sources of Beliefs about Parenting | |
Parenting Research Findings | |
Theoretical Perspectives on Parenting | |
Introduction to Theory | |
Major Theories of Parent-Child Relationships | |
Narrow Theories | |
Approaches To Parenting Research | |
Multiple Approaches | |
Comparing Approaches | |
The Controversy of Parental Influence | |
Historical Evidence About Parental Influence | |
Associations Between Parenting and Children?s Outcomes | |
The Human Behavioral Genetics Challenge | |
A New Perspective on How Parents Matter | |
Trajectories and Development | |
Determinants of Parenting | |
Categories of Determinants | |
Cultural and Distal Determinants | |
Contextual Determinants | |
Stable Characteristics Determinants | |
Situational Determinants | |
Interrelations Among Determinants | |
Parenting and Development | |
Becoming A Parent | |
Deciding to Have a Child | |
Getting Pregnant, Staying Pregnant, and Encountering Problems | |
Labor and Childbirth | |
The Preterm Newborn | |
Transitioning to Parenthood | |
Parenting the Newborn | |
The Problem of Infant Mortality | |
Ethical Issues | |
Parenting: From Infancy Through The Preschool Years | |
Parenting an Infant | |
Parenting a Toddler | |
Parenting a Preschooler | |
Parenting: The Middle-Childhood Years | |
Parents and Within-Family Interactions | |
Parents and External Influences | |
Parenting: Adolescents | |
Adolescent Development in the Context of the Home | |
Problems for Adolescents and their Parents | |
How Parents Help Teens Navigate Adolescence | |
Contemporary Issues | |
Parenting In Nontraditional Families and Special Populations | |
Nontraditional Families | |
Parenting in Special Populations | |
Cultural Influences on Parenting | |
Cultural Diversity Among North American Parents | |
Parenting in Minority Groups | |
Parenting in Different Countries | |
Religion and Parenting | |
Child Maltreatment: When Parenting Goes Awry | |
Child Maltreatment Through History | |
The Four Faces of Maltreatment | |
Maltreatment Across Time and Country | |
Protecting Maltreated Children: Foster Parents | |
Social Policy Issues | |
The Changing American Family | |
Do the Math: Economic Costs of Family Problems | |
Social Policy Responses | |
Controversial Social Policy Ideas | |
Appendix: Journals That Frequently Publish Studies Pertaining to Parenting | |
Glossary | |
References | |
Author Index | |
Subject Index | |
About the Author | |
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