Abstract parenting involves multiple levels of organization that change in and through
integrated, mutually interdependent or" fused" relationships occurring over both ontogenetic …

Thirty years ago, Urie Bronfenbrenner (1974) observed that developmental psychology had
become the study of “the behavior of children in strange situations with strange adults”(p. 3) …

Parents, Children, and Adolescents presents an integrative perspective of the parent-child
relationship within several contexts. You can expand your empirical and theoretical …

By tradition, students of socialization have directed their primary energies toward
understanding processes whereby parents' child-rearing strategies and behaviours …

This volume is concerned with elucidating similarities and differences in enculturation
processes that help to account for the ways in which individuals in different cultures develop …

Like psychology at large, developmental psychology does not offer an explicit theory about
family structure or functioning. Nevertheless, it has much to say about family relationships …

Human beings do not grow up, and adults do not parent, in isolation, but in multiple contexts
(Bornstein, 2002; Bronfenbrenner, 1999; Lerner, Rothbaum, Boulos, & Castellino, 2002). In …

This article discusses the Parent Development Theory (PDT). Developed over a decade
ago, the PDT is a useful theoretical perspective for understanding individuals' parenting …

This volume seeks to identify and define the parameters of a relatively new problem area--
parental development. Drawing on the grand developmental theories of Sigmund Freud …

Abstract illustrate how several aspects of U. Bronfenbrenner's perspective on the ecology of
human development can be incorporated into a program of research/[examine] the role of …