Drawing on both sociological and anthropological perspectives, this volume explores cross-national trends and everyday experiences of parenting .

Parenting in Global Perspective examines the significance of parenting as a subject of professional expertise, and activity in which adults are increasingly expected to be emotionally absorbed and become personally fulfilled. By focusing the significance of parenting as a form of relationship and as mediated by family relationships across time and space, the book explores the points of accommodation and points of tension...