Volume 2, Issue 1, January-March 2002

EMPIRICAL REPORTS

Authoritative and Authoritarian Mothers' Parenting Goals, Attributions, and Emotions Across Different Childrearing Contexts
Robert J. Coplan, Paul D. Hastings, Daniel G. Lagace-Seguin, and Caryn E. Moulton

Differences between authoritative and authoritarian mothers' parenting goals and attributions in response to hypothetical vignettes were found to be more pronounced in scenarios depicting negative child behaviors, whereas differences in affective responses were evident across a broader range of childrearing contexts.

Stability Of Maternal Socio-Emotional Investment In Young Children
Robert F. Corwyn and Robert H. Bradley

Three aspects of maternal socioemotional investment in the child—sensitivity, delight, and acceptance of the parenting role—are stable across early childhood from 15 months to 36 months.

Does father absence influence children's gender development?
Findings from a general population study of pre-school children
Madeleine Stevens, Susan Golombok, Michael Beveridge, and the ALSPAC Study Team

The absence of a father from the family home is not found to affect parent-reported gender-role behavior in preschool-age girls or boys.

Contact with Grandparents Among Children Conceived Via Donor Insemination by Lesbian and Heterosexual Mothers
Megan Fulcher, Raymond W. Chan, Barbara Raboy, and Charlotte J. Patterson

Social networks that surround and support children conceived via donor insemination do not vary as a function of parental sexual orientation and mothers' relationship status, but biological linkages are associated with frequency of grandparent contacts.