Handbook of Parenting

<p>This highly anticipated third edition of the <em>Handbook of Parenting</em> brings together an array of field-leading experts who have worked in different ways toward understanding the many diverse aspects of parenting. Contributors to the <em>Handbook</em> look to the most recent research and thinking to shed light on topics every parent, professional, and policymaker wonders about. Parenting is a perennially "hot" topic. After all, everyone who has ever lived has been parented, and the vast majority of people become parents themselves. No wonder bookstores house shelves of "how-to" parenting books and magazine racks in pharmacies and airports overflow with periodicals that feature parenting advice. However, almost none of these is evidence-based. The <i>Handbook of Parenting</i> is. Period. Each chapter has been written to be read and absorbed in a single sitting, and includes historical considerations of the topic, a discussion of central issues and theory, a review of classical and modern research, and forecasts of future directions of theory and research. Together, the five volumes in the <em>Handbook</em> cover Children and Parenting, the Biology and Ecology of Parenting, Being and Becoming a Parent, Social Conditions and Applied Parenting, and the Practice of Parenting.</p><p>Volume 1, <i>Children and Parenting</i>,<b> </b>considers parenthood as a functional status in the life cycle: Parents protect, nurture, and teach their progeny, even if human development is more dynamic than can be determined by parental caregiving alone. Volume 1 of the <i>Handbook of Parenting</i> begins with chapters concerned with how children influence parenting. Notable are their more obvious characteristics, like child age or developmental stage; but subtler ones, like child gender, physical state, temperament, mental ability, and other individual-differences factors, are also instrumental. The chapters in Part I, on Parenting across the Lifespan, discuss the unique rewards and special demands of parenting children of different ages and stages – infants, toddlers, youngsters in middle childhood, and adolescents—as well as the modern notion of parent-child relationships in emerging adulthood, adulthood, and old age. The chapters in Part II, on Parenting Children of Varying Status, discuss common issues associated with parenting children of different genders and temperaments as well as unique situations of parenting adopted and foster children and children with a variety of special needs, such as those with extreme talent, born preterm, who are socially withdrawn or aggressive, or who fall on the autistic spectrum, manifest intellectual disabilities, or suffer a chronic health condition.</p> <p><strong>Part I. Parenting Across the Lifespan </strong>1. Parenting Infants <i>Marc H. Bornstein </i>2. Parenting Toddlers <i>Marjolein Verhoeven, Anneloes van Baar, and Maja Deković</i> 3. Parenting During Middle Childhood <i>W. Andrew Collins and Stephanie D. Madsen</i> 4. Parenting Adolescents <i>Bart Soenens, Maarten Vansteenkiste, and Wim Beyers</i> 5. Parenting Emerging Adults <i>Laura M. Padilla-Walker and Larry J. Nelson </i>6. Parent-Child Relationships in Adulthood and Old Age <i>Karen L. Fingerman, Steven H. Zarit, and Kira S. Birditt </i><b>Part II. Parenting Children of Varying Status </b>7. Parenting Siblings <i>Mark E. Feinberg, Susan M. McHale, and Shawn D. Whiteman</i> 8. Parenting Girls and Boys <i>Christia Spears Brown and Michelle Tam</i> 9. Parenting and Temperament <i>John E. Bates, Maureen E. McQuillan, and Caroline P. Hoyniak </i>10. Parenting in Adoptive Families <i>Ellen E. Pinderhughes and David M. Brodzinsky </i>11. Foster Parenting <i>Kristin Bernard, Allison Frost, Sierra Kuzava, and Laura Perrone </i>12. Parenting Talented Children <i>David Henry Feldman and Mel Andrews </i>13. Parenting Children Born Preterm <i>Merideth Gattis </i>14. Parenting Behaviorally Inhibited and Socially Withdrawn Children <i>Paul D. Hastings, Kenneth H. Rubin, Kelly Smith, and Nicholas Wagner </i>15. Parenting Aggressive Children<em> Tina Malti, Ju-Hyun Song, Tyler Colasante, and Sebastian P. Dys </em>16. Parenting and Autism Spectrum Disorder <i>James B. McCauley, Peter Mundy, and Marjorie Solomon </i>17. Parenting Children with Intellectual Disabilities <i>Robert M. Hodapp, Ellen G. Casale, and Kelli A. Sanderson </i>18. Parenting Children with a Chronic Health Condition <i>Thomas G. Power, Lynnda M. Dahlquist, and Wendy Pinder </i></p>