Introduction: Thinking About the Family PART I: VIEWS OF PARENTS 1. A Consideration of the Cognitive Activities of Parents and Their Role in the Socialization Process 2. Reflections on the Belief-Behavior Connection: Lessons Learned from a Research Program on Parental Belief Systems and Teaching Strategies 3. Cognitive Processes During Reactions to Rule Violation 4. Some Antecedents of Maternal Attributions About Children’s Performance in Mathematics 5. Prenatal Expectations, Postnatal Experiences and the Transition to Parenthood 6. Linking Parental Beliefs to Children’s Social Competence: Toward a Cognitive-Behavioral Assessment Model PART II: VIEWS OF CHILDREN 7. Children’s Concepts of the Family Extension of the Family Concept — Is This a Family? 8. Children’s Knowledge of Adoption: Developmental 9. Children’s Reasoning About Parental Divorce 10. Coping with Abuse: Children’s Perspectives on Their Abusive Treatment
R.D. Ashmore, D.M. Brodzinsky, Rutgers —The State University of New Jersey