This highly anticipated third edition of the Handbook of Parenting
brings together an array of field-leading experts who have worked in
different ways toward understanding the many diverse aspects of
parenting. Contributors to the Handbook look to the most recent
research and thinking to shed light on topics every parent,
professional, and policymaker wonders about. Parenting is a
perennially "hot" topic. After all, everyone who has ever lived has
been parented, and the vast majority of people become parents
themselves. No wonder bookstores house shelves of "how-to" parenting
books, and magazine racks in pharmacies and airports overflow with
periodicals that feature parenting advice. However, almost none of
these is evidence-based. The Handbook of Parenting is. Period. Each
chapter has been written to be read and absorbed in a single sitting,
and includes historical considerations of the topic, a discussion of
central issues and theory, a review of classical and modern research,
and forecasts of future directions of theory and research. Together,
the five volumes in the Handbook cover Children and Parenting, the
Biology and Ecology of Parenting, Being and Becoming a Parent, Social
Conditions and Applied Parenting, and the Practice of Parenting.
Volume 3, Being and Becoming a Parent, considers a large cast of
characters responsible for parenting, each with her or his own customs
and agenda, and examines what the psychological characteristics and
social interests of those individuals reveal about what parenting is.
Chapters in Part I, on The Parent, show just how rich and multifaceted
is the constellation of children’s caregivers. Considered first are
family systems and then successively mothers and fathers, coparenting
and gatekeeping between parents, adolescent parenting, grandparenting,
and single parenthood, divorced and remarried parenting, lesbian and
gay parents and, finally, sibling caregivers and nonparental
caregiving. Parenting also draws on transient and enduring physical,
personality, and intellectual characteristics of the individual. The
chapters in Part II, on Becoming and Being a Parent, consider the
intergenerational transmission of parenting, parenting and
contemporary reproductive technologies, the transition to parenthood,
and stages of parental development, and then chapters turn to parents'
well-being, emotions, self-efficacy, cognitions, and attributions as
well as socialization, personality in parenting, and psychoanalytic
theory. These features of parents serve many functions: they generate
and shape parental practices, mediate the effectiveness of parenting,
and help to organize parenting.
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ISBN
9780429781322
Publisert
2024
Utgave
3. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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