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UNINA9910817495703321 |
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Titolo |
Substitute parents : biological and social perspective on alloparenting across human societies / / edited by Gillian Bentley & Ruth Mace |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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New York, : Berghahn Books, 2009 |
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ISBN |
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0-85745-642-3 |
1-282-62806-2 |
9786612628061 |
1-84545-953-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (372 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies of the Biosocial Society ; ; v. 3 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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BentleyGillian R. <1957-> |
MaceRuth |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Foster parents |
Child care |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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