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) …

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

Parent-Child Interaction: Theory, Research, and Prospects is intended (a) to provide a
synthesis of a segment of this growing body of literature on interrelationships between …

Resonances of two traditions in the study of parent-child relations have been heard at this
symposium: a concern with outcomes of parental behavior toward children; and an interest …

This special issue is the first of two consecutive special issues devoted to presenting the
proceedings of the Second Brigham Young University Conference on Youth and Family …

Developmental psychologists have long been interested in how parents impact child
development. However, finding actual cause-and-effect links between specific actions of …

This chapter reviews research strategies that can be used to isolate the effects of child and
parent participants in the family social system, considers the special problems that each of …

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

Even most charitably, research in parent-child relations cannot be viewed as a field in which
methodology is exemplary and in which evidence is firm and consistent. But even most …

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 …