Performing the role of a parent by care-giving, nurturance, and protection of the child by a natural or substitute parent. The parent supports the child by exercising authority and through consistent, empathic, appropriate behavior in response to the child's needs. PARENTING differs from CHILD REARING in that in child rearing the emphasis is on the act of training or bringing up the children and the interaction between the parent and child, while parenting emphasizes the responsibility and qualities of exemplary behavior of the parent.
    

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A woman breastfeeding her baby and looking after two small children in a rural setting. Engraving.

A young man with his arms crossed against his chest and a young woman gesturing with her hands as their woman braids material and their father sits reading a paper beyond; a representing a safe-sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Kuleana Centre for Sexual Health in Tanzania. Colour lithograph by Marco Tibasima, ca. 1997.

Fifteen vignettes relating to child care, domestic medicine, effects of alcohol and eating. Etching by G. Cruikshank after himself.

A woman breastfeeding her child among her busy family. Etching by D. Deuchar, 1786, after A. van Ostade.

The elephant in the playroom : ordinary parents write intimately and honestly about raising kids with special needs / Denise Brodey.

A fairer future for children : towards better parental and professional care / Mia Kellmer Pringle ; with F.S.W. Brimblecombe [and others].

The family report 2003 : choosing happiness? / a report commissioned by Lever Fabergé and researched and written by Kate Stanley, Laura Edwards and Becky Hatch and on behalf of ippr trading ltd.

Child care / Graeme Snodgrass.

A new method of educating children, or, Rules and directions for the well ordering and governing them during their younger years : shewing that they are capable ... : also, what methods is to be used by breeding women ... / written ... by Tho. Tryon.

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The elephant in the playroom : ordinary parents write intimately and honestly about raising kids with special needs / Denise Brodey.

A fairer future for children : towards better parental and professional care / Mia Kellmer Pringle ; with F.S.W. Brimblecombe [and others].

The family report 2003 : choosing happiness? / a report commissioned by Lever Fabergé and researched and written by Kate Stanley, Laura Edwards and Becky Hatch and on behalf of ippr trading ltd.

Child care / Graeme Snodgrass.

A new method of educating children, or, Rules and directions for the well ordering and governing them during their younger years : shewing that they are capable ... : also, what methods is to be used by breeding women ... / written ... by Tho. Tryon.