Parents and Their Children

Parents and Their Children is completely revised to help your students learn the demands of parenting as well as the rewards parenting offers. The text reflects a stronger emphasis on parenting skills with such changes in today's world as peer violence, more single-parent and dual-career families, and encouragement of moral and character development. Engages students in real-life parenting applications called Applying New Skills, Thinking Critically, and Linking Academics; Focuses student attention with attractive illustrations and charts on helpful information in parenting situations; Discusses conception, pregnancy, prenatal development and care, and the well-being of families, and emphasizes abstinence to avoid unplanned pregnancies; Links theories of child development experts to practical parenting applications; Connects student interest in children and families with potential careers and their related pathways; Introduces moral development and character and ways parents can encourage this development in their children; Emphasizes the stages of parenting through the life span. - Publisher.