Parenting for a Caring World

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For Scholars, p. 1

The following papers are for those of you who wish to delve more deeply into certain topics and for those who would like to learn more about our sources.

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:

M McCarthy's_Goals__Methods__Results__Two_cultures_contrasted.pdf

Go to For Scholars, p. 2 to critically examine the behavioristic, independence training theory that has been influencing American infant-rearing for decades and compare and contrast it with my theory of optimum psychosocial development.