Children thrive in a variety of family forms; they develop normally with single parents, with unmarried parents, with multiple caretakers in a communal setting, and with traditional two-parent families. What children require is loving and attentive adults, not a particular… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Children need both latitude of expression and firmly enforced limits on their behaviors, in a blend that results in calm, patientmanagement. The key to… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Parents sometimes think of newborns as helpless creatures, but in fact parents' behavior is much more under the infant's control than the reverse. Does… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
It is important for practical and psychological reasons to call any reasonably stable group that rears children a family… The advantage of this view… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Babies learn most of what they know from interactions with their parents, but not of the formal, instructional variety. Babies learn from spontaneous, everyday… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
We know that babies develop as well in nonmaternal as in maternal care, as long as the care is of good quality. The issue… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Fortunately for common sense, psychological research has shown that babies with more than one attachment are less distressed whenmother leaves to go to work.… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Babies need social interactions with loving adults who talk with them, listen to their babblings, name objects for them, and give them opportunities to… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Not until Freud's writings became popular did descriptions of infants center on relationships with their mothers. The idea that children have feelings of any… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Day care poses no risk for children, provided that it is high quality… Poor quality day care is risky for children everywhere… The cost… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Parents ought to feel more comfortable about the care of their children than some experts would seem to permit. If children were so fragile… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Ideas about mothers have swung historically with the roles of women. When women were needed to work the fields or shops, experts claimed that… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Mothers have not always had the most important role in their children's upbringing, when they had other economic roles to play. Inpast centuries, fathers… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
A healthy newborn has been delivered in a more or less satisfying fashion. The baby is feeding well, has short nails and a clean… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
Children thrive in a variety of family forms; they develop normally with single parents, with unmarried parents, with multiple caretakers in a communal setting,… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
