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Most adults experience parenthood. But the longest period of the parental experience--when children grow into adolescence and young adulthood and parents themselves are not yet elderly--is the least understood. In this groundbreaking volume, distinguished scholars from anthropology, demography, economics, psychology, social work, and sociology explore the uncharted years of midlife parenthood. The authors employ a rich array of theory and methods to address how the parental experience affects the health, well-being, and development of individuals. Collectively, they look at the time when parents watch offspring grow into adulthood and begin to establish adult-to-adult relationships with their children.
With a strong emphasis on the diversity of midlife parenting, including sociodemographic variations and specific parent or child characteristics such as single parenting or raising a child with a disability, this volume presents for the first time the complex factors that influence the quality of the midlife parenting experience.
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《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
Ryff, director of the Institute on Aging at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and Seltzer (social work, Univ. of Wisconsin), who is affiliated with the Waisman Center, have brought together several disparate studies on midlife parenting. Their main goal is to highlight research on how children affect the lives of their parents instead of the more traditional research emphasis of finding out how parents affect their children. Researchers included here met this challenge in various ways. For example, "midlife parenting" was defined several different ways, usually according to the age of the parents or of their children. Some of the studies also focused on different subgroups, such as African American or Latino parents, single fathers, and parents with disabled children living at home. Because of these varying focuses and because some studies still seem to highlight the children of the middle-aged parents, this book doesn't hang together as well as one might hope. But most academic libraries that support psychology and/or sociology programs should buy it because it includes many studies that can be utilized by researchers.Pamela A. Matthews, Missouri Western State Coll. Lib., St. Joseph (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
目录
| 1 The Uncharted Years of Midlife ParentingCarol D. Ryff and Marsha Mailick Seltzer |
| 2 Social Demographic Diversity among American Midlife ParentsNadine F. Marks |
| 3 The Economic Vulnerability of Midlife Single ParentsDaniel R. Meyer |
| 4 Parental Socialization in Historical PerspectiveDuane F. Alwin |
| 5 Social and Historical Influences on Parent-Child Relations in MidlifeMichael E. J. Wadsworth |
| 6 Parents' Well-Being at Their Children's Transition to AdolescenceSusan B. Silverberg |
| 7 Reproductive Transitions: The Experience of Mothers and DaughtersJulia A. Graber and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn |
| 8 Mothers' Parental Efficacy at Midlife in a Black and Latina Sample: Effects of Adolescent Change across a School TransitionLaRue Allen and J. Lawrence Aber and Edward Seidman and Jill Denner and Christina Mitchell |
| 9 The Prediction of Parental Psychological Functioning: Influences of African American Adolescent Perceptions and Experiences of ContextMargaret Beale Spencer and Dena Phillips Swanson and Alvin Glymph |
| 10 How Children Turn Out: Implications for Parental Self-EvaluationCarol D. Ryff and Pamela S. Schmutte and Young Hyun Lee |
| 11 The Returning Adult Child and Parental Experience at MidlifeWilliam S. Aquilino |
| 12 Midlife and Later-Life Parenting of Adult Children with Mental RetardationMarsha Mailick Seltzer and Marty Wyngaarden Krauss and Seung Chol Choi and Jinkuk Hong |
| 13 Demographic Position and Stressful Midlife Events: Effects on the Quality of Parent-Child RelationshipsDebra Umberson |
| 14 Midlife: The Prime of Fathers CorinneN. Nydegger and Linda S. Mitteness |
| 15 Child Life Events, Parent-Child Disagreements, and Parent Well-Being: Model Development and TestingRachel A. Pruchno and Norah D. Peters and Christopher J. Burant |
| 16 Looking Back and Looking Ahead: Life-Course Unfolding of ParenthoodRosemary Blieszner and Jay A. Mancini and Lydia I. Marek |
| 17 The Parental Experience in Midlife: Past, Present, and FutureMarsha Mailick Seltzer and Carol D. Ryff |
| Contributors |
| Index |