ISBN:
9780857456410
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (370 p)
Series Statement:
Studies of the Biosocial Society v.3
Parallel Title:
Print version Substitute Parents : Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting in Human Societies
DDC:
306.874
Keywords:
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
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), infant mortality is high in natural fertility/mortality populations, and human females have a long post-reproductive lifespan. These features conspire to make child raising very burdensome. Mothers frequently defray these costs with paternal help (not usual in other ape species), although this contribut
Description / 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
Description / Table of Contents:
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; Contributors; Index
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