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A critical issue for healthy development is to create an expectation or norm in the culture that adults have a social responsibility to contribute to young people's healthy development?not only for children in their own families, but also for ?other people's kids.? Yet, according to groundbreaking national research from Search Institute, only a fraction of American adults consistently engage with other people's children in positive ways. ?Other People's Kids? shows the importance of developing ?social norms? in communities and society to support adult engagement with young people. It presents the study findings in detail, examines a wide range of research on social norms, and suggests implications for personal and collective actions for mobilizing adults to be actively engaged in their communities. Other People's Kids is a valuable reference for developmental psychologists, child psychologists, school and community psychologists, practitioners, administrators and policymakers.
All Ages
Adulthood (22+)
English
0306477343
Peter C. Scales
2003 Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
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