This compelling volume advances the understanding of what parenting and
related sociodemographic, demographic, and environmental variables look
like and how they are associated with child development in low- and
middle-income countries around the world.
Specifically, expert authors document how child growth, caregiving
practices, discipline and violence, and children's physical home
environments, along with child and primary caregiver sociodemographic
characteristics and household and national development demographic
characteristics, are associated with central domains of early childhood
development across a substantial fraction of the majority world using
contemporary 21st-century data from the UNICEF Multiple Indicator
Cluster Surveys and the UNICEF Early Childhood Development Index. The
lives of nearly 160,000 girls and boys aged 3 to 5 years in nationally
representative samples from 51 low- and middle-income countries are
sampled to address 7 principal questions about children, caregiving, and
contexts. Parenting and Child Development in Low- and Middle-Income
Countries takes an authentically international approach to parenting,
the environment, and child development in cultural contexts that more
fully characterize the world's diversity.
Parenting and Child Development in Low- and Middle-Income Countries is
essential reading for researchers and students of parenting, psychology,
human development, family studies, sociology, and cultural studies, as
well as governmental and non-governmental professionals working with
families in low- and middle-income countries.
