Sibling Relationships their Nature and Significance by M. E. Lamb HARDBACK

Name: Sibling Relationships their Nature and Significance by M. E. Lamb HARDBACK
Brand: Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis

First published in 1982. Since the emergence of developmental psychology early this century, theorists and researchers have emphasized the family\u2019s role in shaping the child\u2019s emergent social style, personality, and cognitive competence. In so doing, however, psychologists have implicitly adopted a fairly idiosyncratic definition of the family\u2014 one that focuses almost exclusively on parents and mostly on mothers. The realization that most families contain two parents and at least two children has occurred slowly, and has brought with it recognition that children develop in the context of a diverse network of social relationships within which each person may affect every other both directly (through their interactions) and indirectly (i.e., through A \u2019s effect on B, who in turn influences C). The family is such a social network, itself embedded in a broader network of relations with neighbors, relatives, and social institutions. Within the family, relationships amo)