Transitions into Parenthood

Rosalina Pisco Costa is assistant professor at the Department of Sociology, School of Social Sciences, University of Évora (Portugal) and integrated researcher with CICS.NOVA.UÉvora - The Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences. She has a PhD in Sociology and a master's degree specialization in Family and Population studies. She works mainly in the Sociology of the Family, Childhood, Everyday Life and Consumption Studies, while crosswise exploring different Social Research Methodologies.  Dr. Sampson Lee Blair is a family sociologist at The State University of New York (Buffalo). His research focuses upon parent-child relationships, with particular emphasis on child and adolescent development. As a Fulbright Scholar Award recipient (2010), he studied parental involvement and children's educational attainment in the Philippines. Most recently, he was elected as Vice-President (North America) of the Research Committee on Youth in the International Sociological Association.

Chapter 1.Young Adult Parents' Work-Family Stress: The Role of a Difficult Child and Parental Conflict; Amira L. Allen, Wendy D. Manning, Monica A. Longmore, Peggy C. Giordano
 Chapter 2.Experiences of Family and Social Support during the Transition to Motherhood among Mothers of Biracial and Monoracial Infants; Roudi Nazarinia, Roy
Yolanda, Mitchell
Anthony, James
Byron Miller, Jessica Hutchinson  
Chapter 3.Narratives from Community-Based Organization Staff and Black and Coloured Mothers in South Africa: A Qualitative Study on the Impact of Participation in Parenting Programs on Maternal Behaviors; Simone Martin-Howard 
Chapter 4.For Us or the Children? Exploring the Association Between Co-parenting Trajectories and Parental Commitment; Heidi M. Williams 
Chapter 5.Mediating Effects of Maternal Gatekeeping on Nonresident Black Fathers' Paternal Stressors; Katrina A. R. Akande, Claudia J. Heath 
Chapter 6.A Conceptual and Methodological Exploration of the Cognitive Processes Associated with Mindful Parenting: Reflections on Translating Theory to Practice; Kishani Townshend, Nerina Caltabiano 
Chapter 7.In which language(s) do you parent? How language(s) used by migrant parents influence the realization of parenting functions?; Maria Siemushyna, Andrea S. Young 
Chapter 8.Co-sleeping as a Developmental Context and its Role in the Transition to Parenthood; Elaine S. Barry 
Chapter 9.Mother-Child Relationships and Depressive Symptoms in the Transition to Adulthood: An Examination of Racial and Ethnic Differences; Xing Zhang 
Chapter 10.Parenting in Three-Generation Taiwanese Families: The Dynamics of Collaboration and Conflicts; Yi-Ping Shih