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© McCarthy 2011
(This paper is also available through the Goals, Results, Methods page.)
Parenting for a Caring World
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♦ For those of you who would like to read a fascinating comparison of the
child-rearing methods of two hunter-gatherer-gardener cultures and
the characteristics and values of the adults they produced, with a
discussion of the implications for modern American society and its
child-rearing goals and methods, click on the title below:
♦ For those who'd like to critically examine the behavioristic, independence-
training theory that has been influencing American infant-rearing for
decades, and to compare and contrast it with the theory of optimum
psychosocial development click on the title below. The paper begins with a
chart and then goes on to the narrative.
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