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Merrill, Elizabeth Bryant – Anthropology and Education Quarterly, 1987
Describes an urban La Leche League breastfeeding support group in western New York. The group demonstrates how some mothers are adapting to the effects of rapid social change, particularly on the mother-infant bond. Members are transmitting a style of natural mothering based on complete breastfeeding by relying on intragenerational modeling. (KH)
Descriptors: Breastfeeding, Infants, Mothers, Parent Associations
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Catlett, Camille; Winton, Pam; Parrish, Rosalie N.; Baker, Nina; Frazee, Diane M.; Frederick, Linda; Graham, Bess Althaus; Moss, Jan A. – Young Exceptional Children, 2002
This article reviews resources that offer personal insights and lessons from families of children with disabilities. Five books are reviewed that offer perspectives from fathers and mothers on raising and coping with a child with a disability, along with three Web sites for families of children with disabilities or premature infants. (CR)
Descriptors: Books, Child Rearing, Children, Coping
Fenichel, Emily, Ed. – Zero to Three, 1996
This theme issue offers a collection of articles focusing on support groups for parents of infants and toddlers, including the following: (1) "Gaining Perspective on Parenting Groups" (Nick Carter and Cathie Harvey) which reviews the purposes, history, and essential ingredients of such groups; (2) "The MELD Experience with Parent Groups" (Joyce…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Disabilities, Early Childhood Education, Family Involvement