The Child and Its Family

Chapter 1 Introduction: Issues in the Study of the Social Network

Chapter 2 The Child’s Social Network: Social Object, Social Functions, and Their Relationship

Chapter 3 The Infant as a Focus for Family Reciprocity

Chapter 4 Conceptualization of Father Influences in the Infancy Period

Chapter 5 The Infant’s Exposure to Talk by Familiar People: Mothers, Fathers, and Siblings in Different Environments

Chapter 6 The Family as a System of Mutual Influences: Parental Beliefs, Distancing Behaviors, and Children’s Representational Thinking

Chapter 7 Self-Recognition in Chimpanzees and Man: A Developmental and Comparative Perspective

Chapter 8 Only Children, Stereotypes, and Research

Chapter 9 Interaction between Young Siblings in the Context of Family Relationships

Chapter 11 The Effect of Adults on Peer Interactions

Chapter 12 Differential Development of Various Social Relationships by Rhesus Monkey Infants

Chapter 13 Young Children’s Concepts of Social Relations: Social Functions and Social Objects

Chapter 14 The Changing American Family and Its Implications for Infant Social Development: The Sample Case of Maternal Employment