Human Development across Lives and Generations The Potential for Change [Hardcover]

This volume examines the potential for change during the life course and across generations.How much change is possible over a lifetime and across generations? What is realistic in what we can do to promote healthy human development in our nations? A group of leading international scholars in the fields of psychology and psychiatry, economics, and sociology address these important questions. Chapters discurss marriage, divorce, and living together ; poverty or economic disadvantage; psychological traits and health, and how these affect parents and their children. Each section also has a chapter on interventions to improve lives.How much change is possible over a lifetime and across generations? What is realistic in what we can do to promote healthy human development in our nations? A group of leading international scholars in the fields of psychology and psychiatry, economics, and sociology address these important questions. Chapters discurss marriage, divorce, and living together ; poverty or economic disadvantage; psychological traits and health, and how these affect parents and their children. Each section also has a chapter on interventions to improve lives.How much change is possible over a lifetime and across generations? What is realistic in what we can do to promote healthy human development in our world? A group of leading international scholars in the fields of psychology and psychiatry, economics, and sociology address these important questions. Contributions cover marriage, divorce, and living together ; poverty or economic disadvantage; and psychological traits and health, and how these affect parents and their children. Each section also has a chapter on interventions to improve lives.Figures and tables; Contributors; Foreword Klaus Jacobs; Acknowledgments; Part I. Introduction and Overview: 1. Introduction P. Lindsay Chase-Lansdale, Kathleen Kiernan and Ruth J. Friedman; 2. Life-course development: the interplay of social-selection and social causalc¿