Effects Of Children on Parents (Haworth Marriage & the Family) [Paperback]

Terry S Trepper (Author), Anne Marie Ambert (Author)

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ISBN-10: 1560241187 | ISBN-13: 978-1560241188 | Publication Date: January 6, 1992 | Edition: 1St Edition

This human interest book describes the various aspects of children's effects on their parents. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, child effect is examined from the point of view of sociology, psychology, psychiatry, delinquency, and even literary criticism, as well as others. Also used is a multi-level approach, whereby parental and child characteristics interact with the quality of social response to produce, or present, negative or positive child effect. In addition to the multidisiplinary approach, several chapters present actual studies illustrating specific themes in child effect. These studies range from child effect on divorced parents, students' reflections of childhood and the effect they have had on their parents, and the role of children in defining their mother's premenstrual syndrome, to the effect on mothers of caring at home for chronically ill children and the effect on mothers and children belonging to interracial families in a racist society. "The Effect of Children on Parents" has a feminist orientation in most chapters, which, combined with the interdisciplinary approach, aims to provide a comprehensive and advanced introduction to the subject.

Product Details

• Paperback: 308 pages
• Publisher: Routledge; 1St Edition edition (January 6, 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1560241187
• ISBN-13: 978-1560241188
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,470,162 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars PROBLEMS CREATED BY HAVING CHILDREN, September 22, 2010

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This review is from: The Effect of Children on Parents (Haworth Marriage & the Family) (Hardcover)

Anne-Marie Ambert
The Effect of Children on Parents

(New York: Haworth Press, 1992) 308 pages
(ISBN: 1-56024-117-9; hardcover)
(ISBN: 1-56024-118-7; paperback)
(Library of Congress call number: HQ755.8.A47 1991)

A careful documentation of the negative effects
of children on parents
--based on printed sources
and some original research with college students.
Children affect their parents in the following areas:
health; housing and living space; employment patterns;
economic burdens; changed relationship with spouse;
life-plans; sense of control over life.
Special problems receive separate chapters: juvenile delinquency;
children's emotional problems; the family of divorce;
children with severe chronic illnesses; PMS and motherhood;
racial identity problems from 'mixed' marriages;
grown children who blame their parents for their problems.
This is one of the few books
examining the negative impacts of having children.

Some other books asking questions about parenthood
will be found by searching the Internet for:
"Books Exploring the Decision to Have Children".