The Different Faces of Motherhood began during a conversation
between the two editors, developmental psychologists who have spent
our professional careers working with infants and very young
children. We are well aware of the impor tance of infants to their
mothers and of mothers to their infants. However, we were
particularly aware of the fact that, whereas our knowledge about
infants increases exponentially . each decade, our assumptions
about mothers change relatively little. We were concerned about the
theories that underlie the advice given to mothers and also about
the assumption that mothers appear to be generic. More and more we
have learned about individual differences in babies, but not more
and more about individual differences in mothers. Our second
concern has been to expand our knowledge about mothers. Our
assumptions were few and our questions were many. We believed that
the experience of women would vary greatly, both in outlook and in
behavior, depending on each woman's age, marital status, finan Cial
status, ethnicity, health, education and work experience, as well
as a wom an's own experience in her family origin and her
relationship to her husband. If we are to understand child
development and believe that the early years are important in a
child's life, then it seems critical to examine our beliefs about
mothers. If we are to understand human development, then being a
mother is surely an important area of inquiry."
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