Patricia Hamilton
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781529207934
- eISBN:
- 9781529207958
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781529207934.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
Attachment parenting is an increasingly popular style of childrearing that emphasises natural activities such as extended breastfeeding, bedsharing and babywearing. Such parenting activities are ...
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Attachment parenting is an increasingly popular style of childrearing that emphasises natural activities such as extended breastfeeding, bedsharing and babywearing. Such parenting activities are framed as the key to addressing a variety of social ills. Parents choices are thus made deeply significant with the potential to guarantee the well-being of future societies. Examining black mothers' engagements with attachment parenting, the book shows the limitations of this neoliberal approach. Unique in its intersectional analysis of contemporary mothering ideologies, the book fills a gap in the literature on parenting culture studies, drawing on black feminist theorizing to analyse intensive mothering practices and policies.Less
Attachment parenting is an increasingly popular style of childrearing that emphasises natural activities such as extended breastfeeding, bedsharing and babywearing. Such parenting activities are framed as the key to addressing a variety of social ills. Parents choices are thus made deeply significant with the potential to guarantee the well-being of future societies. Examining black mothers' engagements with attachment parenting, the book shows the limitations of this neoliberal approach. Unique in its intersectional analysis of contemporary mothering ideologies, the book fills a gap in the literature on parenting culture studies, drawing on black feminist theorizing to analyse intensive mothering practices and policies.
Patricia Hamilton
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2021
- ISBN:
- 9781529207934
- eISBN:
- 9781529207958
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781529207934.003.0005
- Subject:
- Sociology, Race and Ethnicity
This chapter focuses on sleep as a universal and widely debated topic for parents and parenting experts. It talks about the where, when, and how of infant sleep that motivates public awareness ...
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This chapter focuses on sleep as a universal and widely debated topic for parents and parenting experts. It talks about the where, when, and how of infant sleep that motivates public awareness campaigns, forum discussions, scholarly research, and parenting literature as each offers different solutions to the problem of managing babies' sleep. It also mentions the danger associated with the sleeping habit of babies, specifically the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). The chapter mentions Back to Sleep as the most famous anti-SIDS campaigns in the mid-1990s, which advised parents to put babies to sleep on their backs. It examines bedsharing as the attachment parenting's solution to the problem of sleep, which is defined as a baby and its caregiver sharing an adult bed.Less
This chapter focuses on sleep as a universal and widely debated topic for parents and parenting experts. It talks about the where, when, and how of infant sleep that motivates public awareness campaigns, forum discussions, scholarly research, and parenting literature as each offers different solutions to the problem of managing babies' sleep. It also mentions the danger associated with the sleeping habit of babies, specifically the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). The chapter mentions Back to Sleep as the most famous anti-SIDS campaigns in the mid-1990s, which advised parents to put babies to sleep on their backs. It examines bedsharing as the attachment parenting's solution to the problem of sleep, which is defined as a baby and its caregiver sharing an adult bed.
Barry S. Hewlett and Jennifer W. Roulette
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- April 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199964253
- eISBN:
- 9780199366828
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199964253.003.0010
- Subject:
- Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Evolutionary Psychology
Social and physical sleeping patterns and arrangements of infants, children and adolescents are examined among Aka foragers and Ngandu farmers of central Africa. The study finds that bedsharing was ...
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Social and physical sleeping patterns and arrangements of infants, children and adolescents are examined among Aka foragers and Ngandu farmers of central Africa. The study finds that bedsharing was normative in both groups, even into adolescence. Children generally slept with genetically related kin and parents never coslept next to their sexually mature adolescents of the opposite sex. Differences between the groups also existed. Forager infants and children were more likely to sleep with parents, especially fathers, than were farmer infants and children; forager children generally decided where they slept while farmer children’s parents decided where children slept; and, forager beds and sleeping spaces were smaller with more people than were farmer beds and spaces. Culture, ecology and evolutionary biology were used to explain intercultural and intracultural variability in sleeping patterns.Less
Social and physical sleeping patterns and arrangements of infants, children and adolescents are examined among Aka foragers and Ngandu farmers of central Africa. The study finds that bedsharing was normative in both groups, even into adolescence. Children generally slept with genetically related kin and parents never coslept next to their sexually mature adolescents of the opposite sex. Differences between the groups also existed. Forager infants and children were more likely to sleep with parents, especially fathers, than were farmer infants and children; forager children generally decided where they slept while farmer children’s parents decided where children slept; and, forager beds and sleeping spaces were smaller with more people than were farmer beds and spaces. Culture, ecology and evolutionary biology were used to explain intercultural and intracultural variability in sleeping patterns.
Judith Owens and Monica Ordway
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- November 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780190930448
- eISBN:
- 9780190930479
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780190930448.003.0004
- Subject:
- Public Health and Epidemiology, Epidemiology, Public Health
This chapter focuses on the developmental issues that impact sleep during infancy and childhood and link to adult sleep. For example, it examines differences in sleep across childhood as well as the ...
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This chapter focuses on the developmental issues that impact sleep during infancy and childhood and link to adult sleep. For example, it examines differences in sleep across childhood as well as the relationship of pediatric and adult sleep health and specific issues such as mother–child bedsharing. The chapter discusses the social determinants of sleep for children—for example, increasing screen time and social media involvement, impact of bedtime routines, the mismatch of school hours to the biology of sleep in teenagers (e.g., highlighting that a reason that high schools start at 8 AM in the United States is so that parents can drop them off before they take off on their long commutes to work).Less
This chapter focuses on the developmental issues that impact sleep during infancy and childhood and link to adult sleep. For example, it examines differences in sleep across childhood as well as the relationship of pediatric and adult sleep health and specific issues such as mother–child bedsharing. The chapter discusses the social determinants of sleep for children—for example, increasing screen time and social media involvement, impact of bedtime routines, the mismatch of school hours to the biology of sleep in teenagers (e.g., highlighting that a reason that high schools start at 8 AM in the United States is so that parents can drop them off before they take off on their long commutes to work).
