Parenting Across the Life Span: Biosocial Dimensions

by Lonnie R. Sherrod, Alice S. Rossi, Jeanne Altmann

Research on parenting through the life course has developed around two separate approaches. Evolutionary biology provides fresh perspectives from life history theory using behavioral ecology and parental investment theory. At the same time, the social and behavioral sciences integrates research from long-term studies of individual development and from the collection of life histories.This path-breaking book advances evolutionary, life history research...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202363821
• ISBN13: 9780202363820
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"