Gender and parenthood : biological and social scientific perspectives /
The essays in this collection deploy biological and social scientific perspectives to evaluate the transformative experience of parenthood for today's women and men. They map the similar and distinct roles mothers and fathers play in their children's lives and measure the effect of gendere...
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction / W. Bradford Wilcox and Kathy Kovner Kline
- How and why is parenthood gendered?
- The dynamic nature of the parental brain / Kelly G. Lambert and Catherine L. Franssen
- Family life and infant care : lessons from cooperatively breeding primates / Charles T. Snowdon
- Human parenting from an evolutionary perspective / David F. Bjorklund and Ashley C. King
- Parenting x gender x culture x time / Marc H. Bornstein
- Gender differences and similarities in parental behavior / Ross D. Parke
- Gender and parenting across the family life cycle / Ayelete Talmi
- Implications for children, couples, and families
- Essential elements of the caretaking crucible / Kathy Kovner Kline and Brian Stafford
- Gendered parenting's developmental implications for children / Rob Palkovitz
- Do fathers uniquely matter for adolescent well-being? / David J. Eggebeen
- No one best way : work-family strategies, the gendered division of parenting, and the contemporary marriages of mothers and fathers / W. Bradford Wilcox and Jeffrey Dew
- The effect of gender-based parental influences on raising children : the impact on couples' relationship / Scott Haltzman
- Single mothers raising children without fathers : implications for rearing children with male-positive attitudes / William Doherty and Shonda Craft
- List of contributors
- Index.
