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Download full textFeiring, Candice; Lewis, Michael – 1987
The conceptualizations of morphogenic processes suggested by systems theorists provide a useful framework for describing growth and development in complex adaptive self-directing organisms. These processes involve changes in (1) a system's structure, state, or functioning; (2) discontinuities in development; and (3) at least two kinds of…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Behavior Problems, Children, Developmental Continuity
Peer reviewedFeiring, Candice; Lewis, Michael – Sex Roles, 1987
Examines the social networks of 85 young children as they made the transition from a home-centered to a school-centered existence. As children reached school age, they had increased contact with peers and decreased contact with kin. Children as young as three showed more same-sex than opposite-sex peer contact. (Author/BJV)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Attachment Behavior, Children, Family (Sociological Unit)
