Product Description: The essays in this collection deploy biological and social scientific perspectives to evaluate the transformative experience of parenthood for today's women and men. They map the similar and distinct roles mothers and fathers play in their children's lives and measure the effect of gendered parenting on child well-being, work and family arrangements, and the quality of couples' relationships...read more

Product Description: Do the words “mother” and “father” mean the same thing or different things? If there are differences, do those differences matter? In Mother Bodies, Father Bodies: How Parenthood Changes Usfrom the Inside Out, social scientists and natural scientists come together to offer new findings on the meaning of parenthood which push the boundaries on recent assumption...read more

Product Description: This unique book offers insight into a new social science concept, authoritative communities. Unlike any other volume, Kline’s work facilitates the continuing dialogue about the needs of children and teens and society’s responsibility to nurture its greatest human capital...read more