Parenting Across the Life Span - Biosocial Dimensions

Zusammenfassung Research on parenting through the life course has developed around two separate approaches Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction; I: Parenthood and the Life Span; 2: Life Span Aspects of Reproduction and Parental Care in Anthropoid Primates; 3: Parenthood in Transition: From Lineage to Child to Self-Orientation; II: Biosocial Perspectives and Parental Investment; 4: Somatic Aspects of Parent-Offspring Interactions; 5: A Biosocial Perspective on Paternal Behavior and Involvement; 6: Parental Supplements and Surrogates Among Primates: Cross-Species and Cross-Cultural Comparisons; III: Human Variation Through Time and Space: Historic Change in Human Parenthood; 7: The Watershed: Change in Parental-Investment and Family-Formation Strategies in the Course of Human Evolution; 8: Parent Investment and the Child’s Environment; 9: Socialization for Parenthood in Sibling Caretaking Societies; 10: Parenthood in Social Transformation; 11: Historical Perspectives on the Development of the Family and Parent-Child Interactions; IV: The Life Span and Parental Investment in Modern Society; 12: Demographic Trends in Human Fertility, and Parenting Across the Life Span; 13: Differential Parental Investment: Its Effects on Child Quality and Status Attainment; 14: Children in Their Contexts: A Goodness-of-Fit Model; 15: Parent—Child Relations in Later Life: Trends and Gaps in Past Research; 16: Parenting, Grandparenting, and Intergenerational Continuity...

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• Authors: Jeanne Altmann, Altmann Jeanne, Jane B. Lancaster, Jane B. Sherrod Lancaster, Alice S. Rossi, Lonnie R. Sherrod, Social Science Research Council (U S )
• Assisted by: Jeanne Altmann (Editor), Altmann Jeanne (Editor), Jane B. Lancaster (Editor), Alice Rossi (Editor), Lonnie Sherrod (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.12.1987
• EAN: 9780202303321
• ISBN: 978-0-202-30332-1
• No. of pages: 488
• Series: Foundations of Human Behavior; Social Institutions and Social; Foundations of Human Behavior S.; Foundations of Human Behavior
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, Sociology: family & relationships, Sociology: family and relationships