Other people's kids : social expectations and American adults' involvement with children and adolescents / Peter C. Scales with Peter L. Benson ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scales, Peter, 1949-

Series:

Search Institute series on developmentally attentive community and society

The Search Institute series on developmentally attentive community and society

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children and adults--United States.

Children and adults.

Child development--United States.

Child development.

United States.

Social change--United States.

Social change.

Parenting--United States.

Parenting.

Physical Description:

xvii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum, [2003]

Contents:

1. Adults' Real Relationships with Young People 3

2. Parents, Other Adults, and Responsibility for Positive Child and Youth Development 17

3. The Nature and Operation of Social Norms 37

4. How Content and Culture Influence Adults' Sense of Reasonable Responsibility for Young People 63

5. Personal and Collective Action to Raise Healthy, Caring, Competent Young People: Defining Reasonable Responsibilities and Expectations for All Adults 81

6. Engagement with Kids: An American Consensus on Core Adult Actions 99

7. Normative Fragmentation: The Disappearance of Consensus 131

8. Multiple Normative Americas: The Differences among Us 145

9. Strategies for Increasing Adult Engagement with Other People's Kids 201

Appendix C Hypothetical Situations Posed for In-Depth Interviews 249

Appendix D Sampling Tolerance 253.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-265) and index.

ISBN:

0306477343

OCLC:

51839197