The family's transition out of middle childhood brings with it a new set of issues and
concerns for parents and children that arise when the interpersonal equilibrium established …

Parents' relationship with a child will change when the child becomes an adolescent, but the
relationship does not necessarily have to change for the worse. On the premise that knowing …

Abstract reviews the pattern of developmental and contextual changes that occur in the child
during adolescence and speculates on the implications that each has for parenting/briefly …

This article examines the most important ideas to have emerged from the last 25 years of
research on adolescent development in the family context and suggests some directions for …

The age period bridging between infancy and early childhood (the 18-month or 2-year
period between approximately 12 and 36 months of age) is often referred to as toddlerhood …

The aim of this chapter is to specify the characteristics and processes of parent-child
relationships that sustain the centrality of the family amid the extensive changes of …

Abstract [discuss] themes central to understanding adolescent parenthood/the concept of
timing of transitions (in this case the timing of adolescent parenthood) is the organizing …

Parents of children between the ages of 5 and 12—the period commonly referred to as
middle childhood—face challenges arising from maturational changes in children and from …

Despite the fact that most people become parents and everyone who has ever lived has had
parents, parenting remains a mystifying subject about which almost everyone has opinions …

Years ago I left the small village pre-school where I was working as play group leader
because I felt very frustrated. Seeing most children for only two or three mornings a week I …