- Appropriately Subversive
- Tova Hartman Halbertal
- How do mothers reconcile conflicting loyalties--to their religious traditions, and to the daughters whose freedoms are also constrained by those traditions? Searching for answers, Tova Hartman Halbertal interviewed mothers of teenage daughters in religious communities: Catholics in the United States, Orthodox Jews in Israel. Her book illuminates one of the moral questions of our time--how best to protect children and preserve community, without being imprisoned by tradition.
- Hardcover 2003
- Fatherhood
- Ross Parke
- In this new book, Parke considers the father-child relationship within the "family system" and the wider society. Using the "life course" view of fathers, he demonstrates that men enact their fatherhood in a variety of ways in response to their particular social and cultural circumstances.
- Paperback 1996 / Hardcover 1996
- The First Relationship
- Daniel N. Stern
- Stern's pathbreaking video-based research into the intimate complexities of mother-infant interaction has had an enormous impact on psychotherapy and developmental psychology. Now a noted authority on early development, Stern first reviewed his unique methods and observations in The First Relationship. Intended for parents as well as for therapists and researchers, it offers a lucid and nontechnical overview of the author's key ideas and encapsulates the major themes of his subsequent books.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004
- What We Know About Childcare
- Alison Clarke-Stewart
- Virginia D. Allhusen
- Backed by the best current research, Clarke-Stewart and Allhusen bring a reassuring answer to parents' fears and offer guidance for making difficult decisions. Quality child care, they show, may be even more beneficial to children than staying at home. Although children who spend many hours in care may be unruly compared with children at home, those who attend quality programs tend to be cognitively ahead of their peers. They are just as attached to their mothers and reap the additional benefits of engaging with other children.
- Hardcover 2005