Handbook of Parenting

<p>This highly anticipated third edition of the <i>Handbook of Parenting</i> 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 4 <i>Social Conditions and Applied Parenting</i> describes socially defined groups of parents and social conditions that promote variation in parenting. The chapters in Part I on Social and Cultural Conditions of Parenting start with a relational developmental systems perspective on parenting and move to considerations of ethnic and minority parenting among Latino and Latin Americans African Americans Asians and Asian Americans Indigenous parents and immigrant parents. The section concludes with considerations of disabilities employment and poverty on parenting. Parents are ordinarily the most consistent and caring people in children’s lives. However parenting does not always go right or well. Information education and support programs can remedy potential ills. The chapters in Part II on Applied Issues in Parenting begin with how parenting is measured and follow with examinations of maternal deprivation attachment and acceptance/rejection in parenting. Serious challenges to parenting—some common such as stress and depression and some less common such as substance abuse psychopathology maltreatment and incarceration—are addressed as are parenting interventions intended to redress these trials. </p>