Thinking About Parenting
Read chapter 4 in Parenting: A Dynamic Perspective for a historical look at parental influence, associations between parenting and how a child “turns out,” and perspectives on how parents guide developmental trajectories.
Chapter 5 in Parenting: A Dynamic Perspective to learn about determinants and how a parent’s behavior is influenced by culture, setting, family structure, and pressures, which determine how they parent and raise their children.