Family Experience and the Child's Development.

Kagan, Jerome

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ERIC Number: EJ217106

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Publication Date: 1979-Oct

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Family Experience and the Child's Development.

Kagan, Jerome

American Psychologist, v34 n10 p886-91 Oct 1979

Criticizes accepted premises regarding family influence on the child: (1) particular external conditions are inevitably associated with fixed consequences for all children; (2) some psychological structures created by early experience are stable over time; and (3) the mother-infant bond is the primary determinant of the child's future psychological health. (Author/GC)

Descriptors: Child Development, Child Psychology, Child Rearing, Family Influence, Mothers, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Influence, Personality Development

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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