Why do fathers matter? Recent conceptual and theoretical advances regarding father–child
relationships have demonstrated that fathers affect children's outcomes both directly and …

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

Infancy is an easily definable stage of life, based on biological and mental data as well as on
social convention. Infants do not speak, whereas youngsters and adults do; infants creep …

A major task for parents during the transition to second-time parenthood is to help their
firstborn adjust to their new roles as siblings. Increased father involvement has been …

This chapter focuses on sibling relations in early and middle childhood, but children are
acutely aware of their younger sibling from their birth, and early interaction patterns …

In animals with slow ontogeny and long-term maternal investment, immatures are likely to
experience the birth of a younger sibling before reaching maturity. In these species, the birth …

Guided by developmental ecological systems theory, the studies in this issue emphasize the
immediate context of father–child relationships, the microsystem, including relationships …

This longitudinal study examined the reciprocal associations between paternal and maternal
rejection and firstborn children's (M age= 49.9 months; 55% boys) behavior problems across …

Attachment security is theorized to shape stress reactivity, but extant work has failed to find
consistent links between attachment security to mothers and infant cortisol reactivity. We …

The current study investigated connections between implicit motives of power and affiliation,
adult attachment styles, and parenting behaviors using self-report and observational data …