The Effect of Children on Parents

ISBN-13: 9780789008558 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 252 str.

Anne-Marie Ambert; Ann-Marie Ambert

Opis

This pioneering book honestly confronts the interactions by which parents and children change, develop, and sometimes affect each other negatively. Taking a unique interdisciplinary approach, this book describes in great detail, with jargon-free language this neglected area of parent-child dynamics.

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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

O autorze

Anne Marie Ambert