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Author Farkas, George

Title Infant Care and Motherhood in an Urban Community
Published Somerset : Taylor and Francis, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (270 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I. BACKGROUND OF THE INVESTIGATION; 1. Aims and design; General aims; The design of the investigation; The sample; Exclusions; Losses; Getting the mother's co-operation; The design of the schedule; The interviewers; 2. The evaluation of evidence; PART II. THE PATTERN OF INFANT CARE; 3. Birth in prospect and retrospect; 4. Food and comfort: breast, bottle and dummy; Why do they stop?; The routine of feeding; Weaning; 5. Eating and sleeping; The one-year-old's sleep; Getting the baby to sleep
6. The roots of socializationLeaving the baby to cry; Temper tantrums; The crimes of the one-year-old; 7. Habit making and habit breaking; Habit making; Habit breaking; 8. Father's place is in the home; You don't have kiddies to leave 'em; PART III. INFANT REARING AND SOCIAL CLASS; 9. The class factor; The classification adopted; The control of variables; 10. Childbirth and social class; 11. Class trends in infant feeding; Weaning; Dummies; Conclusion; 12. Patterns of indulgence; Attitudes to eating; Toilet training; Attitudes to genital play; 13. Aggression and counter-aggression
Temper tantrums14. Mothers, fathers and social class; PART IV. THE LONGER VIEW; 15. Then and now; APPENDICES; I. The interview schedule; II. Instructions to interviewers; III. Results of statistical tests of significance; IV. A Nottingham glossary: words and phrases used in everyday speech; LIST OF REFERENCES; INDEX; TABLES
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Subject Children -- Great Britain
Infants -- Care.
Infant Care
Children
Infants -- Care
Great Britain
Form Electronic book
Author Newson, Elizabeth
ISBN 9781351512657
135151265X