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Handbook of Parenting (Volume 3): Status and Social Conditions of Parenting. Marc H. Bornstein (Ed.). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 1995. 595 pp. Hardcover ISBN 0-8058-18928. $125.
In the third of this four-volume set on parenting, Marc Bornstein presents a collection of chapters that focuses on who are the people that are parenting and what social conditions influence parenting either directly (e.g., public policies or legal statutes) or indirectly (e.g., parental beliefs, attitudes, or knowledge that might be influenced by social conditions).
Authors of texts on parenting frequently include the topics of mothering, fathering, single parenthood, adolescent parenthood, and parenting in divorced and remarried families. Increasingly, they also include grandparenthood and gay and lesbian parenthood, as well. This volume has chapters on...