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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Understanding Parents and Child Rearing | |
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| Introduction: From Beliefs to Evidence | |
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| Parenting Beliefs Throughout History | |
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| Sources of Beliefs about Parenting | |
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| Parenting Research Findings | |
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| Theoretical Perspectives on Parenting | |
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| Introduction to Theory | |
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| Major Theories of Parent-Child Relationships | |
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| Narrow Theories | |
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| Approaches To Parenting Research | |
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| Multiple Approaches | |
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| Comparing Approaches | |
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| The Controversy of Parental Influence | |
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| Historical Evidence About Parental Influence | |
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| Associations Between Parenting and Children?s Outcomes | |
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| The Human Behavioral Genetics Challenge | |
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| A New Perspective on How Parents Matter | |
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| Trajectories and Development | |
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| Determinants of Parenting | |
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| Categories of Determinants | |
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| Cultural and Distal Determinants | |
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| Contextual Determinants | |
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| Stable Characteristics Determinants | |
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| Situational Determinants | |
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| Interrelations Among Determinants | |
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| Parenting and Development | |
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| Becoming A Parent | |
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| Deciding to Have a Child | |
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| Getting Pregnant, Staying Pregnant, and Encountering Problems | |
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| Labor and Childbirth | |
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| The Preterm Newborn | |
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| Transitioning to Parenthood | |
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| Parenting the Newborn | |
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| The Problem of Infant Mortality | |
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| Ethical Issues | |
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| Parenting: From Infancy Through The Preschool Years | |
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| Parenting an Infant | |
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| Parenting a Toddler | |
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| Parenting a Preschooler | |
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| Parenting: The Middle-Childhood Years | |
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| Parents and Within-Family Interactions | |
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| Parents and External Influences | |
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| Parenting: Adolescents | |
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| Adolescent Development in the Context of the Home | |
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| Problems for Adolescents and their Parents | |
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| How Parents Help Teens Navigate Adolescence | |
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| Contemporary Issues | |
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| Parenting In Nontraditional Families and Special Populations | |
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| Nontraditional Families | |
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| Parenting in Special Populations | |
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| Cultural Influences on Parenting | |
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| Cultural Diversity Among North American Parents | |
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| Parenting in Minority Groups | |
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| Parenting in Different Countries | |
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| Religion and Parenting | |
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| Child Maltreatment: When Parenting Goes Awry | |
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| Child Maltreatment Through History | |
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| The Four Faces of Maltreatment | |
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| Maltreatment Across Time and Country | |
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| Protecting Maltreated Children: Foster Parents | |
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| Social Policy Issues | |
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| The Changing American Family | |
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| Do the Math: Economic Costs of Family Problems | |
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| Social Policy Responses | |
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| Controversial Social Policy Ideas | |
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| Appendix: Journals That Frequently Publish Studies Pertaining to Parenting | |
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| Glossary | |
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| References | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |
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| About the Author | |