Acknowledgments
Introduction / W. Bradford Wilcox and Kathy Kovner Kline
How and why is parenthood gendered?
The dynamic nature of the parental brain / Kelly G. Lambert and Catherine L. Franssen
Family life and infant care : lessons from cooperatively breeding primates / Charles T. Snowdon
Human parenting from an evolutionary perspective / David F. Bjorklund and Ashley C. King
Parenting x gender x culture x time / Marc H. Bornstein
Gender differences and similarities in parental behavior / Ross D. Parke
Gender and parenting across the family life cycle / Ayelete Talmi
Implications for children, couples, and families
Essential elements of the caretaking crucible / Kathy Kovner Kline and Brian Stafford
Gendered parenting's developmental implications for children / Rob Palkovitz
Do fathers uniquely matter for adolescent well-being? / David J. Eggebeen
No one best way : work-family strategies, the gendered division of parenting, and the contemporary marriages of mothers and fathers / W. Bradford Wilcox and Jeffrey Dew
The effect of gender-based parental influences on raising children : the impact on couples' relationship / Scott Haltzman
Single mothers raising children without fathers : implications for rearing children with male-positive attitudes / William Doherty and Shonda Craft
List of contributors
Index.