Human parental care: Universal goals, cultural strategies, individual behavior
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Hindawi Limited in New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development
- Vol. 1988 (40) , 3-12
- https://doi.org/10.1002/cd.23219884003
Abstract
Parents seek to promote the survival and success of their offspring, but their behavior is adapted to the socioeconomic and demographic conditions of agrarian and urban-industrial societies and further differentiated by local cultural traditions.Keywords
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