▪ Abstract Current work on children's individual characteristics and family processes that
contribute to variation in sibling relationship quality is reviewed. Findings from these studies …

Highlights•Sibling relationships provide a fertile arena for comforting, sharing, and
helping.•Sibling influences on prosocial behavior appear to shift with development.•Sibling …

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 …

The impact of sibling relationships on how people develop has been dramatically under-
emphasised in the literature on child development. Drawing together new and established …

Fairness is central to morality. Previous research has shown that children begin to
understand fairness between the ages of four and six, depending on the context and method …

Thirty‐seven mothers and fathers were observed in their homes interacting with their 2‐and
4‐year‐old‐children at Time 1 and 2 years later. Parental mental state talk to children varied …

This book describes an integrative, strengths-based approach to individual and family
psychotherapy guided by the effects of abuse trauma on the development of sibling …

Children's use of deception in a naturalistic setting was observed longitudinally in 40
families when children were 2 and 4 years old, and again two years later. Goals included …

What is text understanding? It is the dynamic process of constructing coherent
representations and inferences at multiple levels of text and context, within the bottleneck of …

In this chapter, the authors take the position that children's interpersonal skills and
participation in school‐based relationships are important precursors of their school …