1st Edition

Parenting, Infancy, Culture Specificity and Commonality in Argentina, Belgium, Israel, Italy, and the United States

Edited By Marc H. Bornstein Copyright 2022
422 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

422 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

422 Pages 21 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This vital volume advances an in-depth understanding of how parenting infants in the first year of life is similar and different in two contrasting contexts in each of five countries—Argentina, Belgium, Israel, Italy, and the United States—providing a global understanding of parenting across cultures. Edited and written by Marc H. Bornstein and his country collaborators, the... Read more

Acknowledgments

Series Foreword

About the Authors

1. Cultural Approaches to Parenting and Infancy: An Introduction

Marc H. Bornstein

2. Studying Intra-Cultural and Cross-Cultural Parenting and Infancy: General Methods

Marc H. Bornstein and O. Maurice Haynes

3. Argentina: Urban and Rural Parenting and Infancy in a South American Context

Marc H. Bornstein, Celia Zingman de Galperín, and Silvina Galperín with Elinor Berti

4. Belgium: Bilingual and Monolingual Parenting and Infancy

Annick De Houwer and Marc H. Bornstein

5. Israel: Parenting and Infancy in the City and on Kibbutz

Sharone L. Maital and Marc H. Bornstein

6. Italy: Parenting and Infancy in the Industrialized North and the Agrarian South

Paola Venuti and Marc H. Bornstein

7. The United States: Metropolitan and Appalachian Parenting and Infancy

Marc H. Bornstein O. Maurice Haynes, Yoonjun Park, and Joan T. D. Suwalsky

8. Cultural Specificities and Cultural Universals in Parenting and Infancy:

Argentina, Belgium, Israel, Italy, and the United States

Marc H. Bornstein, Yoonjung Park, and O. Maurice Haynes

9. Cultural Approaches to Parenting and Infancy: Some Conclusions

Marc H. Bornstein

Author Index

Subject Index

Biography

Marc H. Bornstein holds positions at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and UNICEF. He is President Emeritus of the Society for Research in Child Development, Founnding Editor of Parenting: Science and Practice, and Editor Emeritus of Child Development. Bornstein has edited several books, including the five-volume Handbook of Parenting for Routledge.