The processes by which family members adjust to the birth of a second child are explored in this volume. Interviews with both parents and with toddler first-born children focused on how the birth of the second child affected the relationships between other family members, their roles within the family and their feelings about themselves. A major finding was that while mothers become active parents on the birth of the first child, it is often not until the second child is born that the father shows great interest in family life and assumes a significant part of the responsibility for household and childcare tasks.
- ISBN10 080393520X
- ISBN13 9780803935204
- Publish Date 29 November 1990
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 20 February 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint SAGE Publications Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 256
- Language English