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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781021103321

Titolo

Substitute parents [[electronic resource] ] : biological and social perspective on alloparenting across human societies / / edited by Gillian Bentley & Ruth Mace

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Berghahn Books, 2009

ISBN

1-282-62806-2

9786612628061

1-84545-953-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (372 p.)

Collana

Studies of the Biosocial Society ; ; v. 3

Altri autori (Persone)

BentleyGillian R. <1957->

MaceRuth

Disciplina

306.874

Soggetti

Foster parents

Child care

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The biological basis of alloparental behaviour in mammals / Nancy G. Solomon and Loren D. Hayes -- Family matters : kin, demography, and child health in a rural Gambian population / Rebecca Sear and Ruth Mace -- Does it take a family to raise a child? : cooperative breeding and the contributions of Maya siblings, parents and older adults in raising children / Karen L. Kramer -- Flexible caretakers : responses of toba families in transition / Claudia R. Valeggia -- Who minds the baby? Beng perspectives on mothers, neighbours, and strangers as caretakers / Alma Gottlieb -- Economic perspectives on alloparenting / Gillian Paull -- The school as parent / Berry Mayall -- The parenting and substitute parenting of young children / Helen Penn -- Adoption, adopters, and adopted children : an evolutionary perspective / David Howe -- Surrogacy : the experiences of commissioning couples and surrogate mothers / Emma Lycett -- Alloparenting in the context of AIDS in Southern Africa : complex strategies for care / Lorraine van Blerk and Nicola Ansell -- Alloparental care and the ontogeny of glucocorticoid stress response among stepchildren / Mark V. Flinn and David Leone -- Separation stress in early childhood : harmless side



effect of modern care-giving practices or risk factor for development? / Joachim Bensel -- Quality, quantity, and type of childcare : effects on child development in the U.S. / Jay Belsky -- 'It feels normal that other people are split up but not your mum and dad' : divorce through the eyes of children / Margaret Robinson, Lesley Scanlan and Ian Butler.

Sommario/riassunto

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 contributi