My Brother's Keeper
Child and Sibling Caretaking [and Comments and Reply]
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7194331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas 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) |
| Year | 1977 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 169-190 |
| Publication date | 1977-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/201883 |
| OpenAlex | W2244079055 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 255 |
| References cited | 16 |
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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Care in translation
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Institutionelle Betreuung von Kindern
Parenting
Childhood
From Playing to Working
Becoming Workers
Social Transformations during Infancy
Mixed Methods in Psychological Anthropology
Childhood
Gender Development
Higher Survival with Older Siblings
Mothers and Maternal Grandmothers and Childhood Survival
Cultural Views of Life Phases
Presence of Siblings
"Improve the Women"
Guided Participation in Cultural Activity by Toddlers and Caregivers
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Cultural variation in young children’s access to work or involvement in specialised child-focused activities
Cultural transmission of ethnobotanical knowledge and skills
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Sibling effects on nutritional status
Childhood, adolescence, and longevity
Kin influence on female reproductive behavior
Parents’ perceptions about infant emotions
Unpacking ‘culture’
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Child-directed and overheard input from different speakers in two distinct cultures
Children and Ethnobiology
Children's Play and Work
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Breastfeeding and Women's Work
The Fallacious Assumptions and Unrealistic Prescriptions of Attachment Theory
The Developmental Tasks of Siblingship over the Life Cycle
An International Perspective on Parenting
Infant Care Practices among Resettled Refugee Mothers from East and Central Africa
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| Unique citing works | 255 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 5,31 |
| Citation span | 1978 - 2026 (49) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 248 |