Grandparents are often a key source of care provision for their grandchildren, yet they are
sidelined in caregiving research and policy decisions. We conducted a global, systematic …

Although thresholds for maternal investment may be set by evolved motivational processes,
adjustments in parental investment are consciously calculated to achieve economic and …

How are children raised in different cultures? What is the role of children in society? How are
families and communities structured around them? Now available in a revised edition, this …

Abstract" Child Care and Culture" examines parenthood, infancy, and early childhood in an
African community, raising provocative questions about" normal" child care. Comparing the …

Family research and scholarship on immigrant families has evolved in the past decade to
include factors such as community context, family environment, and individual attitudes to …

The discipline called “cultural psychology” has been experiencing a major revival since the
early 1980s. The aim of cultural psychology is to document historical and cross‐cultural …

Part of the authoritative four-volume reference that spans the entire field of child
development and has set the standard against which all other scholarly references are …

Since the late nineteen sixties, transnational adoption has emerged as a global
phenomenon. Due to a sharp decline in infants being made available for adoption locally …

Most households in low-income countries deal with economic hardships through informal
insurance arrangements between individuals and communities rather than through publicly …

Most women in the West use contraceptives in order to avoid having children. But in rural
Gambia and other parts of sub-Saharan Africa, many women use contraceptives for the …