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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
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