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

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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 between...

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...