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 3, Being and
Becoming a Parent, considers a large cast of characters responsible
for parenting, each with her or his own customs and agenda, and
examines what the psychological characteristics and social
interests of those individuals reveal about what parenting is.
Chapters in Part I, on The Parent, show just how rich and
multifaceted is the constellation of children's caregivers.
Considered first are family systems and then successively mothers
and fathers, coparenting and gatekeeping between parents,
adolescent parenting, grandparenting, and single parenthood,
divorced and remarried parenting, lesbian and gay parents and,
finally, sibling caregivers and nonparental caregiving. Parenting
also draws on transient and enduring physical, personality, and
intellectual characteristics of the individual. The chapters in
Part II, on Becoming and Being a Parent, consider the
intergenerational transmission of parenting, parenting and
contemporary reproductive technologies, the transition to
parenthood, and stages of parental development, and then chapters
turn to parents' well-being, emotions, self-efficacy, cognitions,
and attributions as well as socialization, personality in
parenting, and psychoanalytic theory. These features of parents
serve many functions: they generate and shape parental practices,
mediate the effectiveness of parenting, and help to organize
parenting.
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