Siblings: Love, Envy, and Understanding

Judy Dunn; Carol Kendrick

Published by Harvard University Press 1982

Siblings

Love, Envy, and Understanding

Judy Dunn and Carol Kendrick

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674330597

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About this book

The birth of a younger sibling can be a traumatic event for the older child. Unquestionably it places increased demands on parents and causes important changes in the inner balance of the family. Childrearing manuals are full of advice about how to get through this difficult time. But until now such advice has been based more on clinical guesswork than on direct observation of what really happens to families when a sibling is born.

With the arrival of Siblings, this gap in our knowledge is admirably filled. Judy Dunn and Carol Kendrick studied forty families for a period of approximately one year starting shortly before the birth of a second child. Some families, they found, weather the storm much better than others, and their book examines the full catalog of factors that can make the difference. There are, for instance, parenting styles that ease the impact on the older child, improve relations between siblings, and generally make life easier for the entire family. But there are also differences among children in such characteristics as sex, age, and temperament, all of which have a major influence totally beyond parental control.

Despite the undeniable stress involved, Dunn and Kendrick demonstrate that the advent of a sibling can be a stimulus for real cognitive and emotional growth on the part of the older child. No longer "the baby," the child must try to deal with a newcomer whose attempts to communicate are necessarily rudimentary. Siblings shows how the elder child's efforts to understand the baby can form the basis for a loving bond of extraordinary durability.

A sensitive and informative book, Siblings takes psychology into an area of family life and child development that has long received too little attention.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
one. Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
two. The Children and the Study Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
three. Arrival of the Sibling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
four. Conversations Before and After Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
five. Affection, Ambivalence, and Jealousy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	84
six. Understanding the Other Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	100
seven. Communication between the Siblings Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
eight. Individual Differences in Sibling Relationships Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
nine. Mothers, Brothers, and Sisters Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
ten. Patterns of Change Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	183
eleven. Implications for Parents, Implications for Psychologists Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Appendixes. References. Index
Appendix A. Tables Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
Appendix Β. Methodology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	253
Appendix C. Statistical Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	285

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Edition: Reprint 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 289
Illustrations
- Other: illustrations
Keywords: Families.; Sibling rivalry.; Parent and child.

eBook

Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780674330597

Hardcover

Published: February 5, 1982
ISBN: 9780674330580