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My Brother's Keeper

Child and Sibling Caretaking [and Comments and Reply]

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ID7194331
AuthorsThomas S Weisner (0000-0002-7209-5788), Ronald Gallimore (0000-0002-7017-2989), Margaret K Bacon, Herbert Barry, Herbert Barry Herbert Barry, Colin Bell (0000-0003-2731-9858), C Novae (0000-0002-7415-2010), Sylvia Caiuby Novaes, Carolyn Pope Edwards, B B Goswami, Leigh Minturn, Sara B Nerlove, Amy Koel, James E Ritchie, P C Rosenblatt (0000-0002-5283-2736), Taniya Singh (0000-0002-3456-8601), T R Singh, Brian Sutton‐smith, Brian Sutton-Smith, Beatrice B Whiting, William D Wilder, T R Williams (0000-0002-6496-5923)
Year1977
Volume18
Issue2
Pages169-190
Publication date1977-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCurrent Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1086/201883
OpenAlexW2244079055
LanguageEN
Citations received255
References cited16

Children often act as caretakers responsible for other children. Such child caretaking varies widely in its frequency, as well as in the degree of institutionalization, relationship to parental caretaking, degree of indulgence, and incidence at differing ages. Residence and household patterns, size of the family, and the subsistence economy, daily routines, and work load of the family are important in determining availability of child caretakers in the home. The United States appears to have fewer alternative caretakers available, and less child caretaking, than most societies. Child caretaking is related to a number of developmental areas during childhood; eight are suggestedin this review: (1) mother-child relationships and attachment; (2) conceptions and emergence of childhood stages; (3) formation and organization of play groups; (4) development of social responsibility; (5) sex differences; (6) development of individual diferences; (7) development of cognitive-style differences; and (8) motivation and classroom performance

Brother · Developmental psychology · Indulgence · Political science · Residence · Sibling · Sociology · Child Welfare and Adoption · Demography · Early Childhood Education and Development · Family and Disability Support Research · Psychology · Social Psychology

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