"Infant Care and Motherhood in an Urban Community" investigates
the behavior and attitudes of 709 mothers towards their year-old
babies. John and Elizabeth Newson, impatient with the voluminous
and contradictory literature telling parents how their children
"should be" brought up, decided to find out how they were being
brought up. "Infant Care in an Urban Community" is focused on
sources of advice that influence parents, how they feel about their
children, and how they react to situations in handling young
babies.
Infant handling today is still a subject on which many different
specialists use the full weight of their professional authority to
back up their private prejudices concerning what is good and what
is bad in the care of young children. In the face of the conflict
which results, intelligent parents are rapidly forced to the
conclusion that the experts know little more about the matter than
they do themselves. The truth is that in the present state of
knowledge there is not a sufficient body of well-substantiated
evidence about the facts and consequences of child rearing on which
to base sound practical advice to parents. This is where this book
comes in. It shows that much of the advice offered is often out of
touch with the practical needs, circumstances, and beliefs of the
ordinary mother.
Few theories of child rearing have been subjected to the
inconvenience of being reconciled with the empirical evidence. This
is the first study which has obtained information of this sort from
a large and representative sample of mothers, and which has
investigated the behavior of both mother and baby here and now'
rather than relying on fond maternal memories. A special feature is
the use of tape-recorded interviews which has allowed extensive
quotation of their mothers' own opinions.
"John Newson" and "Elizabeth Newson" in addition to this book
are authors of "The Family and the Handicapped Child: A Study of
Cerebral Palsied Children in Their Homes" and "Infant Care in an
Urban Community." They were professors of psychology at the
University of Nottingham.
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