1st Edition
School-age Pregnancy and Parenthood Biosocial Dimensions
By Beatrix A. Hamburg
Copyright 1986
446 Pages
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Routledge
424 Pages
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Routledge
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This important work examines in detail and depth how, as a consequence of changing technologies, diet, patterns of reproduction, and work, relations between children and parents have altered. The editors and contributors hold that biosocial science is particularly relevant to research on human family systems and parenting behavior. The family is the universal social institution in which the care... Read more
I: Introduction; 1: The Biosocial Dimensions of School-Age Pregnancy and Parenthood: An Introduction; II: The Life Cycle and Biological Development; 2: Human Adolescence and Reproduction: An Evolutionary Perspective; 3: Timing of Menarche: Secular Trend and Population Differences; 4: The Neuroendocrine Regulation of Pubertal Onset; 5: The Biology of Teenage Pregnancy: The Mother and the Child; 6: Developmental Dyssynchrony as Normative Experience: Kikuyu Adolescents; III: Development: Emotional, Cognitive, and Sexual; 7: Subsets of Adolescent Mothers: Developmental, Biomedical, and Psychosocial Issues; 8: Pubertal Development and Its Relation to Cognitive and Psychosocial Development in Adolescent Girls: Implications for Parenting; 9: Adolescent Fathers: The Under Studied Side of Adolescent Pregnancy; 10: Some Psychosocial Aspects of Adolescent Sexual and Contraceptive Behaviors in a Changing American Society; 11: Family Communication and Contraceptive Use Among Sexually Active Adolescents; IV: Comparative Dimensions: Species, History, and Culture; 12: Adolescent Pregnancies in Non-Human Primates: An Ecological and Developmental Perspective; 13: School-Age Parenthood in Different Ethnic Groups and Family Constellations: Effects on Infant Development; 14: The Duration of Maidenhood Across Cultures; 15: Adolescent Sexuality, Pregnancy, and Childbearing in Early America: Some Preliminary Speculations; V: The Modern World; 16: Adolescent Pregnancy and Childbearing: an Anthropological Perspective; 17: School-Age Parents and Child Abuse; 18: The Economic Impact of School-Age Child Rearing; 19: A Developmental Perspective on School-Age Parenthood
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Beatrix A. Hamburg
