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Infant Care and Motherhood in an Urban Community
266 Pages
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Routledge
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Routledge
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Routledge
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Infant Care and Motherhood in an Urban Community investigates the behavior and attitudes of 709 mothers towards their year-old babies. John and Elizabeth Newson, impatient with the voluminous and contradictory literature telling parents how their children should be brought up, decided to find out how they were being brought up. Infant Care in an Urban Community is focused on sources of... Read more
Introduction PART I. BACKGROUND OF THE INVESTIGATION 1. Aims and design 2. The evaluation of evidence PART 11. THE PATTERN OF INFANT CARE 3. Birth in prospect and retrospect 4. Food and comfort: breast, bottle and dummy 5. Eating and sleeping 6. The roots of socialization 7. Habit making and habit breaking 8. Father's place is in the home PART Ill. INFANT REARING AND SOCIAL CLASS 9. The class factor 10. Childbirth and social class 11. Class trends in infant feeding 12. Patterns of indulgence 13. Aggression and counter-aggression 14. Mothers, fathers and social class PART IV. THE LONGER VIEW 15. Then and now
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John and Elizabeth Newson
