Gender and parenthood : biological and social scientific perspectives /
Wilcox, William Bradford,1970-editor of compilation.
Kline, Kathleen Kovner,editor of compilation.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Acknowledgments -- Introduction / W. Bradford Wilcox and Kathy Kovner Kline -- How and why is parenthood gendered? -- The dynamic nature of the parental brain / Kelly G. Lambert and Catherine L. Franssen -- Family life and infant care : lessons from cooperatively breeding primates / Charles T. Snowdon -- Human parenting from an evolutionary perspective / David F. Bjorklund and Ashley C. King -- Parenting x gender x culture x time / Marc H. Bornstein -- Gender differences and similarities in parental behavior / Ross D. Parke -- Gender and parenting across the family life cycle / Ayelete Talmi -- Implications for children, couples, and families -- Essential elements of the caretaking crucible / Kathy Kovner Kline and Brian Stafford -- Gendered parenting's developmental implications for children / Rob Palkovitz -- Do fathers uniquely matter for adolescent well-being? / David J. Eggebeen -- No one best way : work-family strategies, the gendered division of parenting, and the contemporary marriages of mothers and fathers / W. Bradford Wilcox and Jeffrey Dew -- The effect of gender-based parental influences on raising children : the impact on couples' relationship / Scott Haltzman -- Single mothers raising children without fathers : implications for rearing children with male-positive attitudes / William Doherty and Shonda Craft -- List of contributors -- Index.
Parenthood.
Sex role.
Parent and child.
Husband and wife.