(Ebook) Handbook of Parenting: Volume 4: Social Conditions and Applied Parenting, Third Edition by Marc H. Bornstein ISBN 9781138228740, 9780429398995, 9781138228733, 9780429677779, 9780429677786, 1138228745, 0429398999, 1138228737, 0429677774

(Ebook) Handbook of Parenting: Volume 4: Social Conditions and Applied Parenting, Third Edition by Marc H. Bornstein ISBN 9781138228740, 9780429398995, 9781138228733, 9780429677779, 9780429677786, 1138228745, 0429398999, 1138228737, 0429677774

This highly anticipated third edition of the Handbook of Parenting brings together an array of field-leading experts who have worked in different ways toward understanding the many diverse aspects of parenting. Contributors to the Handbook look to the most recent research and thinking to shed light on topics every parent, professional, and policymaker wonders about. Parenting is a perennially "hot" topic. After all, everyone who has ever lived has been parented, and the vast majority of people become parents themselves. No wonder bookstores house shelves of "how-to" parenting books, and magazine racks in pharmacies and airports overflow with periodicals that feature parenting advice. However, almost none of these is evidence-based. The Handbook of Parenting is. Period. Each chapter has been written to be read and absorbed in a single sitting, and includes historical considerations of the topic, a discussion of central issues and theory, a review of classical and modern research, and forecasts of future directions of theory and research. Together, the five volumes in the Handbook cover Children and Parenting, the Biology and Ecology of Parenting, Being and Becoming a Parent, Social Conditions and Applied Parenting, and the Practice of Parenting. Volume 4, Social Conditions and Applied Parenting, describes socially defined groups of parents and social conditions that promote variation in parenting. The chapters in Part I, on Social and Cultural Conditions of Parenting, start with a relational developmental systems perspective on parenting and move to considerations of ethnic and minority parenting among Latino and Latin Americans, African Americans, Asians and Asian Americans, Indigenous parents, and immigrant parents. The section concludes with considerations of disabilities, employment, and poverty on parenting. Parents are ordinarily the most consistent and caring people in children's lives. However, parenting does not always go right or well. Information, educatio