Children's influence on family dynamics : the neglected side of family relationships

Crouter, Ann C. (Added Author). Booth, Alan, 1935- (Added Author).

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ISBN: 0805842713 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
x, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Mahwah, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003.

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pt. 1. What features of children shape family relationships and how? Child effects on family systems : behavioral genetic strategies / David Reiss -- On the meaning of models : a signal amidst the noise / Kathleen McCartney -- Are we finally ready to move beyond "nature vs. nurture"? / Xiaojia Ge, M. Brent Donnellan, and Lawrence Harper -- How to spin straw into gold / J. Richard Udry -- pt. 2. What role does infant and early childhood temperament play in the development of relationship with parents? Infant negative emotionality, caregiving, and family relationships / Susan Crockenberg and Esther Leerkes -- Child effects on the family : an example of the extreme case and a question of methodology / Cynthia A. Stifter -- Sensitivity to infants' cues : as much a mandate for researchers as for parents / James P. McHale, Kathryn C. Kavanaugh, and Julia M. Berkman -- The developmental course from child effects to child effectiveness / Pamela M. Cole -- pt. 3. What roles do adoloscents play in actively shaping relationships with parents, siblings, and peers? Parenting of adolescents : action or reaction? / Margaret Kerr and Håkan Stattin -- On the brink : stability and change in parent-child relations in adolescence / Elizabeth G. Menaghan -- Parental monitoring : action and reaction / Gene H. Brody -- Parental monitoring : a person-environment interaction perspective on this key parenting skill / Deborah M. Capaldi -- Straw men, untested assumptions, and bi-directional models : a response to Capaldi and Brody / Margaret Kerr and Håkan Stattin -- pt. 4. How do children affect parents' marriage and other family relationships? The gender of child and parent as factors in family dynamics / Eleanor E. Maccoby -- How do children exert an impact on family life? / Susan M. McHale and Ann C. Crouter -- Eleanor E. Maccoby on the active child : gender differences and family interactions / Håkan Stattin and Margaret Kerr -- Reply to Stattin-Kerr critique / Eleanor E. Maccoby -- A gender-balanced approach to the study of childhood aggression and reciprocal family influences / Nicki R. Crick -- Child effects as family process / Lilly Shanahan and Juliana M. Sobolewski.