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...January, Broadway Books will be publishing The Black Parenting Book: Caring for Our Children in the First Five Years by Dr. Anne C. Beal, Linda Villarosa and Allison Abner. Besides offering parents standard child-care advice, the book addresses special concerns in the black community, such as dealing with racism and raising a child with self-esteem, as well as common health problems like lactose intolerance...
...course, there is the fully revised and expanded Dr. Spock's Baby and Child Care by Dr. Benjamin Spock and Dr. Steven J. Parker (Pocket). The book takes the parent through adolescence. Child abuse, rock 'n' roll, AIDS: no topic is too difficult for Dr. Spock to address...
Growing Up Sad: Childhood Depression and Its Treatment by Dr. Leon Cytryn and Dr. Donald McKnew (Norton), sensitively explores childhood depression and helps parents spot problems in the home. "Seldom do we look upon children as small human beings, struggling like the rest of us to make sense of life, to satisfy needs, and to meet challenges as they arise," say the authors. "We tend to assume that children are somehow protected by their innocence...
...Even Dr. Spock's final revision includes a section on gay and lesbian parents. "Tests of psychological adjustment show no significant differences between the wellbeing of children raised by heterosexual parents and those raised by gay or lesbian parents," he wrote...
...Dr. Ruth Westheimer, best known as a sex therapist, explains the importance of grandparents in her life and others' in Grandparenthood (Routledge). She and co-author Dr. Steven Kaplan also dispel the stereotypes: "Contrary to some popular images, most grandparents are neither feeble nor old." Instead, says Dr. Ruth, a grandparent can serve as a valued family historian, model, teacher, confidant or safety net. She also addresses the special concerns when a grandchild is adopted, or when the parents are interethnic or interracial...