Parenting Infancy Culture

<p>This vital volume advances an in-depth understanding of how parenting infants in the first year of life is similar and different in two contrasting contexts in each of five countries—Argentina Belgium Israel Italy and the United States—providing a global understanding of parenting across cultures. </p><p>Edited and written by Marc H. Bornstein and his country collaborators the chapters presented compare microanalytic approaches to three topical issues in each of two cultural groups in each country. The three issues concern first how often and how long mothers in each of the groups in each of the countries engage in basic parenting practices and how often and how long infants in the same groups engage in different behaviors. Second whether the maternal parenting practices are organized in any way and whether those infant behaviors are organized in any way. And third whether those maternal parenting practices and those infant behaviors are interrelated. Thus this book offers insights into the basics of parenting and infancy from both intra-cultural and cross-cultural perspectives. Each country chapter is co-authored by a contributor native to the country examined ensuring an authentic cultural perspectives on parenting and infancy. Together the chapters provide a broader sample that is more generalizable to a wider range of the world’s population than is typical in most parenting and infancy research. </p><p><em>Parenting Infancy Culture</em> is essential reading for researchers and students of parenting psychology human development family studies sociology and cultural anthropology as well as professionals working with families.</p>