This highly anticipated third edition of the Handbook of Parenting
brings together an array of field-leading experts who have worked
in different ways toward understanding the many diverse aspects of
parenting. Contributors to the Handbook look to the most recent
research and thinking to shed light on topics every parent,
professional, and policymaker wonders about. Parenting is a
perennially "hot" topic. After all, everyone who has ever lived has
been parented, and the vast majority of people become parents
themselves. No wonder bookstores house shelves of "how-to"
parenting books, and magazine racks in pharmacies and airports
overflow with periodicals that feature parenting advice. However,
almost none of these is evidence-based. The Handbook of Parenting
is. Period. Each chapter has been written to be read and absorbed
in a single sitting, and includes historical considerations of the
topic, a discussion of central issues and theory, a review of
classical and modern research, and forecasts of future directions
of theory and research. Together, the five volumes in the Handbook
cover Children and Parenting, the Biology and Ecology of Parenting,
Being and Becoming a Parent, Social Conditions and Applied
Parenting, and the Practice of Parenting. Volume 2, Biology and
Ecology of Parenting, relates parenting to its biological roots and
sets parenting in its ecological framework. Some aspects of
parenting are influenced by the organic makeup of human beings, and
the chapters in Part I, on the Biology of Parenting, examine the
evolution of parenting, the psychobiological determinants of
parenting in nonhumans, and primate parenting, as well as the
genetic, prenatal, neuroendocrinological, and neurobiological bases
of human parenting. A deep understanding of what it means to parent
also depends on the ecologies in which parenting takes place.
Beyond the nuclear family, parents are embedded in, influence, and
are themselves affected by larger social systems. The chapters in
Part II, on the Ecology of Parenting, examine the ancient and
modern histories of parenting as well as epidemiology,
neighborhoods, educational attainment, socioeconomic status,
culture, and environment to provide an overarching relational
developmental contextual systems perspective on parenting.
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