This illuminating new volume offers a multifaceted view of parenting cultural belief systems - their origins in culturally constructed parental experience, thei

Research on the topic of parent beliefs, or parent cognition, has increased tremendously since the original publication of this volume in 1985. For this revised

The purpose of this book, is to present a rather simple argument. Parents' thoughts about childrearing and the ways in which they interact with children to achi

Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the fo

Families, communities and societies influence children's learning and development in many ways. This is the first handbook devoted to the understanding of the n