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Brooks, Jane B. – 1981
Written to help couples prepare for parenthood and to improve the effectiveness of parents, this book provides extensive guidelines and background information for accomplishing the basic tasks of parenting. Chapter One depicts parenting as a process, delineates parents' tasks and describes how parents learn to be parents. Based on Erikson's theory…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Behavior Change, Child Development, Child Rearing
Hermann, Alice; Komlosi, Sandor – 1972
The theoretical conceptions of the child and the socialization processes involved in a socialist pedagogical theory are described in this monograph on early child care in Hungary. In emphasizing the partnership between family and state in the care of the young child, this book traces the central role played by government planning in the midst of…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Rearing, Comparative Education, Early Childhood Education
Ribbens, Jane – 1994
In the area of child rearing, U.S. society has largely allowed "expert" ideas and theories to dominate public discussion and literature on child development, at the expense of the attitudes and experiences of those women actually involved with child rearing. This book argues the need for a feminist discussion of childrearing because of the…
Descriptors: Child Development, Child Rearing, Developmental Psychology, Employed Women
Kamerman, Sheila B., Ed.; Kahn, Alfred J., Ed. – 1978
This collection of articles by scholars and policy makers from 14 countries presents multidisciplinary perspectives on the formation of national policy on families. Central topics common to many of the articles include: (1) the differences between policies aimed at affecting the family and policies which have other aims but which do influence the…
Descriptors: Books, Child Rearing, Comprehensive Programs, Cross Cultural Studies
Stautberg, Susan Schiffer – 1993
Intended for women who plan to combine a career with motherhood, this book is a planning document for the full-time working mother-to-be during the three trimesters of pregnancy and the first trimester of motherhood. Each section discusses physical and mental changes associated with motherhood and includes a calendar for appointments and events…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Day Care, Diaries, Dual Career Family
Kamerman, Sheila B., Ed.; Hayes, Cheryl D., Ed. – 1982
The papers in this book investigate the current state of knowledge about how families, various formal and informal community institutions, the workplace, and the marketplace have adapted to changing patterns of labor force participation and related changes in family structure and with what consequences for children. The book is divided into three…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Child Development, Child Rearing
Hayes, Cheryl D., Ed.; Kamerman, Sheila B., Ed. – 1983
This report, a continuation of "Families That Work: Children in a Changing World," presents six papers which examine the effects of working parents on the socialization and intellectual development of children. Data were obtained from approximately 75 sources which met the following criteria: information from two or more relevant domains…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Child Development, Child Rearing