Childhood is the time when we forge our first social bonds, first learn how to express and
read basic human emotions, and first make sense of the physical world. In childhood …

Human beings do not grow up, and adults do not parent, in isolation, but in multiple contexts
(Bornstein, 2002; Bronfenbrenner, 1999; Lerner, Rothbaum, Boulos, & Castellino, 2002). In …

Child and developmental psychologists, sociologists, educators, and policy makers have
long viewed parenting and the family as the most significant influence on the developing …

In The Gardener and the Carpenter, Alison Gopnik, one of the world's leading child
psychologists, illuminates the paradoxes of parenthood from a scientific perspective and …

Parenting is both a biological and a social process (Tobach and Schneirla, 1968). Parenting
subsumes a set of behaviors involved across life in the relations among organisms, who are …

Part III asks the question of how being a parent influences a parent's life and capacity to
parent. Many of the chapters in this section adopt a broad social ecological perspective …

Parenting: An Ecological Perspective was originally created in 1993 to answer questions
such as: Why do parents differ markedly in the ways in which they care for their children …

The social contexts in which children develop have transformed over recent decades, but
also over millennia. Modern parenting practices have diverged greatly from ancestral …

This article discusses the Parent Development Theory (PDT). Developed over a decade
ago, the PDT is a useful theoretical perspective for understanding individuals' parenting …

Visualize a parent and child. The picture of parent and child should always include seeing
the place on earth they are in, the developmental pathways they are on, the ecocultural …