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ERIC Number: EJ471352
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1993
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
The Average Expectable Environment Is Not Good Enough: A Response to Scarr.
Baumrind, Diana
Child Development, v64 n5 p1299-1317 Oct 1993
Takes the position, contrary to that of Sandra Scarr, that the details of socialization patterns are crucial to an understanding of normal and deviant development. Research is cited to support the argument that better than adequate parenting optimizes the development of both normal and vulnerable children and that parents' belief in their own effectiveness further enhances their caregiving. (MDM)
Descriptors: Children, Cognitive Development, Cultural Differences, Family Environment, Heredity, Intervention, Nature Nurture Controversy, Parent Attitudes, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Responsibility, Parenting Styles, Parents, Social Development, Socialization, Theories
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Optimization; Scarr (Sandra); Twin Studies; Vulnerability
Note: This article is one of two responses to Society for Research in Child Development President Sandra Scarr's 1991 presidential address.