The Effect of Children on Parents

ISBN-13: 9780789008541 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 252 str.

Anne-Marie Ambert; Ann-Marie Ambert

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Effectively rewriting to account for the massive research findings that have become available in the nine years since the first edition, Ambert (sociology, York U., Toronto) draws primarily from her own discipline and psychology to explore the impact children have on their parents within the global social contexts in which families are situated, pa

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Contents

• Chapter 1. Child Effect: What Is This? An Introduction
• The Social Construction of Parents
• Organization of the Book
• Chapter 2. The Neglected Perspective: Children's Effect on Parents
• Failures of Traditional Perspectives
• Childhood Is Only One of the Stages in the Life Course
• Parenting: One Important Influence Among Others
• The Emergence of Interactional Theories
• Children and Parents in Historical Perspective
• The Culmination of Historical Changes
• Conclusions
• Chapter 3. Determinants of Child Effect on Parents
• Child Characteristics
• Parental Characteristics
• Characteristics of the Societal Response
• Conclusions
• Chapter 4. Areas of Parents' Lives
• Maternal Health
• Place/Space/Activities
• Parental Employment
• Financial/Economic Aspects
• Marital and Familial Relations
• Human Interaction
• Community
• Parental Personality
• Attitudes, Values, and Beliefs
• Life Plans
• Feelings of Control Over One's Life
• Conclusions
• Chapter 5. Children with Behavioral and Emotional Problems
• What Are Behavioral Problems?
• What Causes Behavioral Problems?
• The Effect on Mothers
• Children with Emotional Problems
• Effects on the Parent-Child Relationship
• Conclusions
• Chapter 6. Adolescents, Parents, and Delinquency
• Overview
• Effects of Delinquency on Parents
• Conclusions
• Chapter 7. The Effects of Children's Peers on Parents
• Peer Pressure and Support
• Peer Abuse
• The Effect of Peers on Parents
• Conclusions
• Chapter 8. Professionals and Parents
• Professional Authority Over Parents
• The “Schizophrenogenic” Mother
• Parent Blaming
• The Merit of Therapeutic Interventions
• Parent Effectiveness Training
• Researching Parents and Children
• Conclusions
• Chapter 9. The Effect of Adult Children on Parents
• What Adult Children Do for Their Parents
• Gender of Children and Parents
• What Parents Do For Their Adult Children
• Grandmothers As Child Caretakers
• Grandmothers As Mother Substitutes
• Abuse of Elderly Parents
• Conclusions
• Chapter 10. Immigrant and Minority Parents
• What Happens to Children?
• Intergenerational Conflict
• Intergenerational Continuity
• Specific Examples of Continuity and Discontinuity
• African-American Parents: The Effect of a Negative Environment
• Conclusions
• Chapter 11. Adoptive Parents
• How Is Adoption Socially Defined?
• The Professional Representation of Adoptive Children
• Transracial Adoption
• Stepchild Adoption
• Open Adoption
• Consequences of Reunions
• Conclusions
• Chapter 12. Let's Not Forget About Genes!
• How Genetic Inheritance Works
• How Do Genes Interact with Environment?
• Do Genes Mean That Parenting is Useless?
• Limitations to Parental Influence
• Conclusions
• Chapter 13. Conclusions: What is Wrong with Parenting Today?
• Cultural and Social Roadblocks to Effective Parenting
• Strengthening Parental Influence
• Parental Gratification: Why Not?
• To Conclude
• Bibliography
• Author Index
• Subject Index
• Reference Notes Included

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Anne Marie Ambert