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Boyette, Adam H. – Child Development, 2016
Few systematic studies of play in foragers exist despite their significance for understanding the breadth of contexts for human development and the ontogeny of cultural learning. Forager societies lack complex social hierarchies, avenues for prestige or wealth accumulation, and formal educational institutions, and thereby represent a contrast to…
Descriptors: Cultural Influences, Play, Children, Adolescents
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Stevenson, Michael R.; Black, Kathryn N. – Child Development, 1988
Differences between father-absent and father-present samples were not large. Although study quality was not the best predictor of outcome, the best-quality studies produced nonsignificant estimates of effect size. Most effect-size estimates were less than .5; many were much smaller. (RH)
Descriptors: Aggression, Children, Comparative Analysis, Fatherless Family
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Baumrind, Diana – Child Development, 1982
Using extensive, multifaceted observational and interview data from the Family Socialization and Developmental Competence Project (FSP), this paper examines the claims that androgynes, by comparison with sex-typed individuals, are more effective persons and parents. (Author/RH)
Descriptors: Androgyny, Authoritarianism, Children, Comparative Analysis
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Bianchi, Barbara D.; Bakeman, Roger – Child Development, 1978
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Open Education, Peer Groups
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Weitzman, Nancy; And Others – Child Development, 1985
When maternal communication with two-and-one-half- to three-and-one-half-year-old children was analyzed, significant differences between mothers' speech to daughters and sons were found. Males consistently received more verbal stimulation of the type thought to facilitate cognitive development. Differential treatment of girls and boys was lessened…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Communication Research, Comparative Analysis, Mothers
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Patterson, Charlotte J. – Child Development, 1992
Reviews research regarding the sexual identity, personal development, and social relationships of children of gay and lesbian parents. To date, there is no evidence that the development of children of gay and lesbian parents is compromised relative to the development of children of heterosexual parents. (BC)
Descriptors: Child Development, Comparative Analysis, Family Environment, Homosexuality
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McHale, Susan M.; Crouter, Ann C.; Tucker, Corinna J. – Child Development, 1999
Examined sex-typing in child personality, interests, and activities as function of traditionality of parents' gender role attitudes and sex composition of sibling dyads. Found that sex-typing was most evident in children's interests and activities. Differences in children's sex-typing as a function of fathers' attitudes and sibling sex…
Descriptors: Activities, Childhood Interests, Children, Comparative Analysis
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McHale, Susan M.; And Others – Child Development, 1990
Examined the implications of sex-typed housework of children from dual- and single-earner families for children's adjustment as a function of congruencies between children's work and parents' sex-role behaviors and attitudes. Analyses revealed differences in sex and earner status in children's and parents' involvement in traditionally feminine and…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Children, Comparative Analysis, Employed Parents
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Wainryb, Cecilia; Turiel, Elliot – Child Development, 1994
Two studies examined concepts of personal autonomy and social roles among persons in different types of cultures. Found that Druze subjects attributed more power than Jewish subjects to males over females, but concepts of personal entitlements were prominent in both groups. Overall, findings indicated that social reasoning is heterogeneous in…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context