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Zigler, Edward F.; Gilliam, Walter S. – Zero to Three (J), 2009
American families are affected by a complex array of community, financial, health, and educational stressors. Unfortunately, social policies in the United States have not kept pace with societal demands. The nation is, as a result, in a state of disequilibrium wherein social policies are not in synchrony with the realities of contemporary family…
Descriptors: Family Life, Child Development, Theory Practice Relationship, Caregiver Role
Kestenberg-Amighi, Janet – Zero to Three (J), 2004
This article argues that a culturally approved style of nonverbal parent-infant interaction influences the unfolding parent-child relationship and the child's social development. The author, an anthropologist, compares parenting styles in the "low-contact" culture of the United States with parenting in the "high-contact"…
Descriptors: Parenting Styles, Child Rearing, Infants, Parent Child Relationship
Lally, J. Ronald – Zero to Three (J), 2003
The author summarizes trends in infant-toddler child care before 1960 and describes how interdisciplinary meetings on early development at the Mental Health Study Center of the National Institute of Mental Health in the 1970s led to the founding of The National Center for Clinical Infant Programs (now ZERO TO THREE) in 1977. Periodic legislative…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Toddlers, Infants, Child Care