- Title
- The child and nurture in the human story
- Creator
- Macdonald, Gaynor; Boulton, John
- Relation
- Aboriginal Children, History and Health: Beyond Social Determinants p. 19-28
- Relation
- https://www.routledge.com/Aboriginal-Children-History-and-Health-Beyond-Social-Determinants/Boulton/p/book/9781138955257
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- In this chapter we describe how the fundamentals of human child rearing emerged among the ancestors of modern humans. These fundamentals produced the universal requirements for human parenting. Good parenting requires that these fundamentals be met, although how this is done has differed from one place or time to another. All people respond to the constraints and possibilities they face in a given environment by developing cultural meanings, values, and practices to make sense of and act on their world, allowing them to develop sustainable lives, including sustainable practices for rearing healthy children. By looking at the expectations and demands of human parenting and what makes it unique, we can develop an understanding of the social world needed to support the physical growth and emotional development of any child. This also gives us a foundation from which to analyse parenting practices across societies. This in turn allows us to reframe the changing experiences that Aboriginal mothers have confronted over time in Australia. We are advocating a more nuanced understanding of the deep origins of human mothering as it is physically, culturally, and socially constituted. Importantly, we show that it requires more human labour than a mother can provide herself, and that a pattern of cooperative parenting is grounded within these fundamentals of child rearing.
- Subject
- child rearing; parenting; cuture; values
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1337156
- Identifier
- uon:27779
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781138955240
- Language
- eng
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