The Parenting and Substitute Parenting of Young Children

Sociobiologists and primatologists, such as Sarah Hrdy (Prologue) have documented the evolutionary roots of primate behaviour. They have emphasized the variability of maternal and paternal behaviour across species. They also point to the ubiquitousness of alloparenting. Whether they live in gregario...

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Vydáno v:Substitute Parents s. 179
Hlavní autor: Helen Penn
Médium: Kapitola
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Berghahn Books 15.09.2009
Vydání:NED - New edition, 1
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ISBN:9780857456410, 0857456415
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Shrnutí:Sociobiologists and primatologists, such as Sarah Hrdy (Prologue) have documented the evolutionary roots of primate behaviour. They have emphasized the variability of maternal and paternal behaviour across species. They also point to the ubiquitousness of alloparenting. Whether they live in gregarious communities, or whether they live more solitary lives, primate mothers are likely to have some direct help in rearing their young. In this chapter, I propose to examine some of the variations in parenting and alloparenting/substitute parenting which exist cross-culturally. I realize that the word ‘cross-cultural’ itself raises conceptual and methodological issues about the possibility of comparing very different
ISBN:9780857456410
0857456415