Substitute Parents : : Biological and Social Perspectives on Alloparenting in Human Societies / / ed. by Gillian Bentley, Ruth Mace.

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• MitwirkendeR: Ansell, Nicola,; Belsky, Jay,; Bensel, Joachim,; Bentley, Gillian R.,; Blerk, Lorraine van,; Butler, Ian,; Flinn, Mark V.,; Gottlieb, Alma,; Hayes, Loren D.,; Howe, David,; Hrdy, Sarah B.,; Kramer, Karen L.,; Leone, David,; Lycett, Emma,; Mace, Ruth,; Mayall, Berry,; Paull, Gillian,; Penn, Helen,; Robinson, Margaret,; Scanlan, Lesley,; Sear, Rebecca,; Solomon, Nancy G.,; Valeggia, Claudia R.,
• HerausgeberIn: Bentley, Gillian,; Mace, Ruth,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Studies of the Biosocial Society ; 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (372 p.)

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), infan...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• PROLOGUE Allomothers across Species, across Cultures, and through Time
• 1 • The Pros and Cons of Substitute Parenting: An Overview
• PART I Alloparental Strategies
• 2 • The Biological Basis of Alloparental Behaviour in Mammals
• 3 • Family Matters Kin, Demography and Child Health in a Rural Gambian Population
• 4 • Does It Take a Family to Raise a Child? Cooperative Breeding and the Contributions of Maya Siblings, Parents and Older Adults in Raising Children
• 5 • Flexible Caretakers: Responses of Toba Families in Transition
• 6 • Who Minds the Baby? Beng Perspectives on Mothers, Neighbours and Strangers as Caretakers
• 7 • Economic Perspectives on Alloparenting
• 8 • The School as Alloparent
• 9 • The Parenting and Substitute Parenting of Young Children
• 10 • Adoption, Adopters and Adopted Children: An Evolutionary Perspective
• 11 • Surrogacy: The Experiences of Commissioning Couples and Surrogate Mothers
• PART II The Effect of Alloparenting on Children
• 12 • Alloparenting in the Context of AIDS in Southern Africa: Complex Strategies for Care
• 13 • Alloparental Care and the Ontogeny of Glucocorticoid Stress Response among Stepchildren
• 14 • Separation Stress in Early Childhood: Harmless Side Effect of Modern Caregiving Practices or Risk Factor for Development?
• 15 • Quality, Quantity and Type of Childcare Effects on Child Development in the U.S.
• 16 • ‘It feels normal that other people are split up but not your Mum and Dad’: Divorce through the Eyes of Children
• Glossary
• Contributors
• Index