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Complaints, disputes, disagreements, arguments_whatever terminology is applied, conflicts between parents and their children are a ubiquitous feature of daily family life. These conflicts play a pivotal role in both individual development and the maintenance of family relationships. In this issue of New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, the authors examine mothers' thoughts about, during, and in response to conflict, and reveal how those maternal beliefs impact children's development. Chapters shed light on mothers' responses to and thoughts about sibling aggression; the role of cultural climate in mothers' use of physical punishment; how mothers' parenting goals and causal attributions vary across child gender and type of transgression; and the relation between maternal beliefs and preschoolers' behaviors with peers.Hastings, Paul D. is the author of 'Conflict As a Context for Understanding Maternal Beliefs About Child Rearing and Children's Misbehavior' with ISBN 9780787912536 and ISBN 0787912530.
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