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The goal of this volume is to discuss - in depth - the ways in which various ""deviations"" from ""traditional"" family styles affect childrearing practices and child development. The contributors deal with the dynamics and possible effects of dual-career families, families with unusually involved fathers, families characterized by the occurrence of divorce, single parenthood, remarriage, poverty, adoption, reliance on nonparental childcare, ethnic membership, parents with lesbian or gay sexual orientations, as well as violent and/or neglectful parents. By doing so, the authors provide thoughtful and literate accounts of a diverse array of nontraditional or traditionally understudied family types. All the chapters offer answers to a common question: How do these patterns of childcare affect children, their experiences, and their developmental processes? The answers to these questions are of practical importance, relevant to a growing proportion of the families and children in the United States, but also have significant implications for the understanding of developmental processes in general.

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Michael Lamb has been at work on important issues in child and family development for a long time. In this latest edited volume he has brought together an outstanding roster of colleagues to review the research on parenting and child development in the context of families that diverge from the format and configuration 'traditional' to 20th-century American society. -Contemporary Psychology Overall, the current volume leaves the reader with a sense of having learned a great deal, renewed insight into the dangers of stereotyping, respect for human adaptability, and the realization of how much more remains to be learned. -Journal of Marriage and the Family Parenting and Child Development in 'Nontraditional' Families is the long-awaited sequal to Michael Lamb's groundbreaking book Nontraditional Families: Parenting and Child Development.....I can thoroughly recommend this book. Each of the chapters is an up-to-date and succinct review written by experts in the field....The book will be of use to students on advanced undergraduate and post-graduate courses specializing in psychosocial development. Furthermore, it should attract interest from social science courses on the family and family therapy. I would recommend the book to any social scientist wishing to broaden their knowledge of the diversity of family forms in western society in the late 20th century. -Infant and Child Development

"""Michael Lamb has been at work on important issues in child and family development for a long time. In this latest edited volume he has brought together an outstanding roster of colleagues to review the research on parenting and child development in the context of families that diverge from the format and configuration 'traditional' to 20th-century American society."" —Contemporary Psychology ""Overall, the current volume leaves the reader with a sense of having learned a great deal, renewed insight into the dangers of stereotyping, respect for human adaptability, and the realization of how much more remains to be learned."" —Journal of Marriage and the Family ""Parenting and Child Development in 'Nontraditional' Families is the long-awaited sequal to Michael Lamb's groundbreaking book Nontraditional Families: Parenting and Child Development.....I can thoroughly recommend this book. Each of the chapters is an up-to-date and succinct review written by experts in the field....The book will be of use to students on advanced undergraduate and post-graduate courses specializing in psychosocial development. Furthermore, it should attract interest from social science courses on the family and family therapy. I would recommend the book to any social scientist wishing to broaden their knowledge of the diversity of family forms in western society in the late 20th century."" —Infant and Child Development"

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Michael E. Lamb, National Institute on Child Health and Human Development.

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