The quality of the interparental relationship is recognized as an important influence on child
and adolescent psychopathology. Historically, clinically oriented research on this topic has …

Although various theories describe mechanisms leading to differential parenting of boys and
girls, there is no consensus about the extent to which parents do treat their sons and …

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 …

This chapter considers the phenomenon of human paternal investment in terms of the
benefits of providing care to children and the costs of investment from the males' …

Mothering and motherhood are the subjects of a rapidly expanding body of literature.
Considered in this decade review are two predominant streams in this work. One is the …

This study presents a model of harsh parenting that has an indirect effect, as well as a direct
effect, on child aggression in the school environment through the mediating process of child …

This book describes research on the emotional communication between parents and
children and its effect on the children's emotional development. Inspired by the work, and …

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 …

In more than 95% of mammalian species, males provide little direct investment in the well-
being of their offspring. Humans are one notable exception to this pattern and, to date, the …

The present study examined gender differences in children's submissive and disharmonious
emotions and parental attention to these emotions. Sixty children and their mothers and …