Parenting Across the Life Span

Biosocial Dimensions
Herausgeber: Altmann, Jeanne

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Research on parenting through the life course has developed around two separate approaches

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nordic Africa Institute
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780202363820
• ISBN-10: 0202363821
• Artikelnr.: 31805014

Autorenporträt

Jeanne Altmann

Inhaltsangabe

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