Volume 1, Issues 1 & 2, January-June 2001

EDITORIAL
Marc H. Bornstein

REVIEW
Evolution of Human Parental Behavior and the Human Family
David C. Geary and Mark V. Flinn

Human parenting and family formation are features of a co-evolving suite of characteristics whose evolutionary function involves kin-based coalition formation for competition against other social groups for control of resources that covary with survival and reproductive outcomes.

Commentary
Evolutionary Developmental Psychology:
A Useful Framework for Evaluating the Evolution of Parenting
David F. Bjorklund and Jennifer L. Yunger

On the Origins of Fathering: Implications of an Evolutionary Perspective for Understanding Links Among Marriage, Divorce, and Men's Parenting
John H. Grych

EMPIRICAL ARTICLES
The Effects of Infant Cries and Odors on Sympathy, Cortisol, and Autonomic Responses in New Mothers and Non-Postpartum Women
Joy Stallings, Alison S. Fleming, Carl Corter, Carol Worthman, and Meir Steiner

During the postpartum period, elevations in glucocorticoids and in heart rate facilitate mothers' nurturant and attentive responses to infants' cries and odors.

A Dyad-Oriented Approach to Distress and Mother-Child
Relationship Outcomes In the First 24 Months
Douglas K. Symons

Distress in mothers and their young children has a strong impact on relationship harmony as revealed in observations of sensitive parenting and secure-base behavior of children.

Marital Conflict, Parenting Styles, and Children's
Representations of Family Relationships
Haya Shamir, Tina Du Rocher Schudlich, and E. Mark Cummings

The marital relationship is a domain of parental behavior that affects children, and marital conflict has implications for children's representations of family relationships.

BOOK REVIEW
Tough Love
Mother Nature: A History of Mothers, Infants and Natural Selection by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy
Myron A. Hofer