Questions about how children fare in divided families have become as perplexing and urgent as they are common. In this text on custody arrangements, developmental psychologist Eleanor Maccoby and legal scholar Robert Mnookin examine the social and legal realities of how divorcing parents make arrangements for their children.
Questions about how children fare in divided families have become as perplexing and urgent as they are common. In this text on custody arrangements, d...
How does being male or female shape us? And what, aside from obvious anatomical differences, does being male or female mean? In this book, the distinguished psychologist Eleanor Maccoby explores how individuals express their sexual identity at successive periods of their lives. A book about sex in the broadest sense, The Two Sexes seeks to tell us how our development from infancy through adolescence and into adulthood is affected by gender.
Chief among Maccoby's contentions is that gender differences appear primarily in group, or social, contexts. In childhood, boys and girls...
How does being male or female shape us? And what, aside from obvious anatomical differences, does being male or female mean? In this book, the dist...