Children's influence on family dynamics
Subtitle: the neglected side of family relationships
By: edited by Ann C. Crouter, Alan Booth.
Contributors: Crouter, Ann C.; Booth, Alan, 1935-
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates; Routledge
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Mahwah, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 269
Subjects: Family; Children; Parent and child; Child rearing
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. What features of children shape family relationships and how? Child effects on family systems : behavioral genetic strategies / David Reiss; title: On the meaning of models : a signal amidst the noise / Kathleen McCartney; title: Are we finally ready to move beyond "nature vs. nurture"? / Xiaojia Ge, M. Brent Donnellan, and Lawrence Harper; title: How to spin straw into gold / J. Richard Udry; title: pt. 2. What role does infant and early childhood temperament play in the development of relationship with parents? Infant negative emotionality, caregiving, and family relationships / Susan Crockenberg and Esther Leerkes; title: Child effects on the family : an example of the extreme case and a question of methodology / Cynthia A. Stifter; title: Sensitivity to infants' cues : as much a mandate for researchers as for parents / James P. McHale, Kathryn C. Kavanaugh, and Julia M. Berkman; title: The developmental course from child effects to child effectiveness / Pamela M. Cole; title: pt. 3. What roles do adolescents play in actively shaping relationships with parents, siblings, and peers? Parenting of adolescents : action or reaction? / Margaret Kerr and Håkan Stattin; title: On the brink : stability and change in parent-child relations in adolescence / Elizabeth G. Menaghan; title: Parental monitoring : action and reaction / Gene H. Brody; title: Parental monitoring : a person-environment interaction perspective on this key parenting skill / Deborah M. Capaldi; title: Straw men, untested assumptions, and bi-directional models : a response to Capaldi and Brody / Margaret Kerr and Håkan Stattin; title: pt. 4. How do children affect parents' marriage and other family relationships? The gender of child and parent as factors in family dynamics / Eleanor E. Maccoby; title: How do children exert an impact on family life? / Susan M. McHale and Ann C. Crouter; title: Eleanor E. Maccoby on the active child : gender differences and family interactions / Håkan Stattin and Margaret Kerr; title: Reply to Stattin-Kerr critique / Eleanor E. Maccoby; title: A gender-balanced approach to the study of childhood aggression and reciprocal family influences / Nicki R. Crick; title: Child effects as family process / Lilly Shanahan and Juliana M. Sobolewski.