Substitute Parents : Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting in Human Societies.

Substitute Parents : Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting in Human Societies.

From a comparative perspective, human life histories are unique and raising offspring is unusually costly: humans have relatively short birth intervals compared to other apes, childhood is long, mothers care simultaneously for many dependent children (other apes raise one offspring at a time), infan...

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Main Author: Bentley, Gillian
Other Authors: Mace, Ruth
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, Inc., 2009.
Series:Studies of the Biosocial Society, 3
Subjects:
Foster parents.
Child care.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Child care
Foster parents
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • Title page-Substitute Parents; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Prologue; Chapter 1-The Pros and Cons of Substitute Parenting; Part I-Alloparental Strategies; Chapter 2-The Biological Basis of Alloparental Behaviour in Mammals; Chapter 3-Family Matters; Chapter 4-Does It Take a Family to Raise a Child?; Chapter 5-Flexible Caretakers; Chapter 6-Who Minds the Baby?; Chapter 7-Economic Perspectives on Alloparenting; Chapter 8-The School as Alloparent; Chapter 9-The Parenting and Substitute Parenting of Young Children; Chapter 10-Adoption, Adopters and Adopted Children.
  • Chapter 11-SurrogacyPart II-The Effect of Alloparenting on Children; Chapter 12-Alloparenting in the Context of AIDS in Southern Africa; Chapter 13-Alloparental Care and the Ontogeny of Glucocorticoid Stress Response among Stepchildren; Chapter 14-Separation Stress in Early Childhood; Chapter 15-Quality, Quantity and Type of Childcare; Chapter 16-'It feels normal that other people are split up but not your Mum and Dad':; Glossary; Con.

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