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Edited by Carol D. Ryff and Marsha Mailick Seltzer

The Parental Experience in Midlife

704 pages, viii., 680 p., 42 line drawings, 102 tables  6 x 9  © 1996
Series: The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and Development, Studies on Successful Midlife Development

Cloth $59.00

ISBN: 9780226732510   Published January 1997

1: The Uncharted Years of Midlife Parenting
Carol D. Ryff, Marsha Mailick Seltzer.
2: Social Demographic Diversity among American Midlife Parents
Nadine F. Marks
3: The Economic Vulnerability of Midlife Single Parents
Daniel R. Meyer
4: Parental Socialization in Historical Perspective
Duane F. Alwin
5: Social and Historical Influences on Parent-Child Relations in Midlife
Michael E. J. Wadsworth
6: Parents' Well-Being at Their Children's Transition to Adolescence
Susan B. Silverberg
7: Reproductive Transitions: The Experience of Mothers and Daughters
Julia A. Graber, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn.
8: Mothers' Parental Efficacy at Midlife in a Black and Latina Sample: Effects of Adolescent Change across a School Transition
LaRue Allen, J. Lawrence Aber, Edward Seidman, Jill Denner, Christina Mitchell.
9: The Prediction of Parental Psychological Functioning: Influences of African American Adolescent Perceptions and Experiences of Context
Margaret Beale Spencer, Dena Phillips Swanson, Alvin Glymph.
10: How Children Turn Out: Implications for Parental Self-Evaluation
Carol D. Ryff, Pamela S. Schmutte, Young Hyun Lee.
11: The Returning Adult Child and Parental Experience at Midlife
William S. Aquilino
12: Midlife and Later-Life Parenting of Adult Children with Mental Retardation
Marsha Mailick Seltzer, Marty Wyngaarden Krauss, Seung Chol Choi, Jinkuk Hong.
13: Demographic Position and Stressful Midlife Events: Effects on the Quality of Parent-Child Relationships
Debra Umberson
14: Midlife: The Prime of Fathers
Corinne N. Nydegger, Linda S. Mitteness.
15: Child Life Events, Parent-Child Disagreements, and Parent Well-Being: Model Development and Testing
Rachel A. Pruchno, Norah D. Peters, Christopher J. Burant.
16: Looking Back and Looking Ahead: Life-Course Unfolding of Parenthood
Rosemary Blieszner, Jay A. Mancini, Lydia I. Marek.
17: The Parental Experience in Midlife: Past, Present, and Future
Marsha Mailick Seltzer, Carol D. Ryff.
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