Maternal responsiveness and social development in preterm infants

✍ Scribed by Susan Goldberg; Mirek Lojkasek; Gloria Gartner; Professor Carl Corter

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 788 KB
• Volume: 1989
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1520-3247
• DOI: 10.1002/cd.23219894309

✦ Synopsis

Professionals and parents alike have long believed that good mothering is good for children. The endless stream of books on raising children and the financial success of such books constitute eloquent testimony both to the strength of this belief and to parents' uncertainty about what good mothering is. Indeed, over the years, experts' views of good mothering have undergone many changes (Lomax, Kagan, and Rosenkranu, 1978; Stendler, 1950;Wolfenstein, 1955). Empirical evidence on the relation between parental behavior and subsequent development has contributed little to this popular literature, but research in this domain continues to flourish.

Work described here was initiated by Klaus Minde, with the support of the Laidlaw Foundation and Ontario Mental Health Foundation, and completed under Ontario Mental Health Foundation grant no. 891-84/86, awarded to Susan Goldberg and Carl Corter. The authors appreciate the cooperation of the neonatal ward and the neonatal follow-up clinic at the Hospital for Sick Children and of the families who gave their time, energy, and enthusiasm to this project.

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