1st Edition
Parenting Across the Life Span Biosocial Dimensions
Edited By Jeanne Altmann
Copyright 1987
488 Pages
by
Routledge
488 Pages
by
Routledge
488 Pages
by
Routledge
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Research on parenting through the life course has developed around two separate approaches. Evolutionary biology provides fresh perspectives from life history theory using behavioral ecology and parental investment theory. At the same time, the social and behavioral sciences integrates research from long-term studies of individual development and from the collection of life histories.This... Read more
1: Introduction; I: Parenthood and the Life Span; 2: Life Span Aspects of Reproduction and Parental Care in Anthropoid Primates; 3: Parenthood in Transition: From Lineage to Child to Self-Orientation; II: Biosocial Perspectives and Parental Investment; 4: Somatic Aspects of Parent-Offspring Interactions; 5: A Biosocial Perspective on Paternal Behavior and Involvement; 6: Parental Supplements and Surrogates Among Primates: Cross-Species and Cross-Cultural Comparisons; III: Human Variation Through Time and Space: Historic Change in Human Parenthood; 7: The Watershed: Change in Parental-Investment and Family-Formation Strategies in the Course of Human Evolution; 8: Parent Investment and the Child’s Environment; 9: Socialization for Parenthood in Sibling Caretaking Societies; 10: Parenthood in Social Transformation; 11: Historical Perspectives on the Development of the Family and Parent-Child Interactions; IV: The Life Span and Parental Investment in Modern Society; 12: Demographic Trends in Human Fertility, and Parenting Across the Life Span; 13: Differential Parental Investment: Its Effects on Child Quality and Status Attainment; 14: Children in Their Contexts: A Goodness-of-Fit Model; 15: Parent—Child Relations in Later Life: Trends and Gaps in Past Research; 16: Parenting, Grandparenting, and Intergenerational Continuity
Biography
Jeanne Altmann
