The parental experience in midlife /
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| Imprint: | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996. |
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| Description: | vii, 679 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation series on mental health and development. Studies on successful midlife development |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Local Note: | University of Chicago Library's copy 3 has original dust jacket. |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2567409 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. The Uncharted Years of Midlife Parenting
- 2. Social Demographic Diversity among American Midlife Parents
- 3. The Economic Vulnerability of Midlife Single Parents
- 4. Parental Socialization in Historical Perspective
- 5. Social and Historical Influences on Parent-Child Relations in Midlife
- 6. Parents' Well-Being at Their Children's Transition to Adolescence
- 7. Reproductive Transitions: The Experience of Mothers and Daughters
- 8. Mothers' Parental Efficacy at Midlife in a Black and Latina Sample: Effects of Adolescent Change across a School Transition
- 9. The Prediction of Parental Psychological Functioning: Influences of African American Adolescent Perceptions and Experiences of Context
- 10. How Children Turn Out: Implications for Parental Self-Evaluation
- 11. The Returning Adult Child and Parental Experience at Midlife
- 12. Midlife and Later-Life Parenting of Adult Children with Mental Retardation
- 13. Demographic Position and Stressful Midlife Events: Effects on the Quality of Parent-Child Relationships
- 14. Midlife: The Prime of Fathers Corinne
- 15. Child Life Events, Parent-Child Disagreements, and Parent Well-Being: Model Development and Testing
- 16. Looking Back and Looking Ahead: Life-Course Unfolding of Parenthood
- 17. The Parental Experience in Midlife: Past, Present, and Future
- Contributors
- Index