Gender and Parenthood: Biological and Social Scientific Perspectives

by W. Bradford Wilcox

Book Overview

The essays in this collection deploy biological and social scientific perspectives to evaluate the transformative experience of parenthood for today's women and men. They map the similar and distinct roles mothers and fathers play in their children's lives and measure the effect of gendered parenting on child well-being, work and family arrangements, and the quality of couples' relationships.

Contributors describe what happens to brains...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231160690
• ISBN13: 9780231160698
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 376 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher