Recognize the hidden costs and rewards of childrearing! The Effect of Children on Parents,
Second Edition, thoughtfully explores the interactions by which parents and children�…

Research into parent-child relationships is a diverse field of inquiry, attracting investigators
from a variety of disciplines and subdisciplines. This book integrates and synthesizes the�…

Any parent who has raised more than one child is likely to be keenly aware of subtle or even
striking differences among their offspring. Although siblings raised together in the same�…

Despite the fact that most people become parents and everyone who has ever lived has had
parents, parenting remains a mystifying subject about which almost everyone has opinions�…

By action and by example, parents shape the lives of their children from birth through
adulthood. In adolescence, the influence of friends and peers take on greater importance�…

Parenting: An Ecological Perspective was originally created in 1993 to answer questions
such as: Why do parents differ markedly in the ways in which they care for their children�…

In this book Kornhaber and Woodward explore the vital connections which link generations
to each other and expose a new social contract that destroys the emotional bonds between�…

The other papers in this volume have grappled with whether and how researchers can tease
apart the child's role in shaping family interactions and their own development from the�…

Children's experiences within the family and the peer group have occupied a position of
central importance in recent research on human development. During the past two decades�…

A once narrow focus in child development research on the individual child or the parent
(read: mother)-child dyad as the sole subject of study has undergone a steady expansion�…