Includes bibliographical references

Conception to birth: New calculator factors chances for very premature infants / D. Grady; Success at last / D. Kotz -- Cognition, language, and learning: Early cognition and physical development, Infants' differential processing of female and male faces / Jennifer L. Ramsey-Rennels and Judith H. Langlois ; Other-race effect develops during infancy / D.J. Kelly ... [et al.] ; New advances in understanding sensitive periods in brain development / Michael S. C. Thomas and Mark H. Johnson ; Contributions of neuroscience to our understanding of cognitive development / Adele Diamond and Dima Amso ; It's fun, but does it make you smarter? / Erika Packard ; Language and children's understanding of mental states / Paul L. Harris, Marc de Rosnay, and Francisco Pons ; Children's biased evaluations of lucky versus unlucky people and their social groups / Kristina R. Olson et al. ; Future thinking in young children / Cristina M. Atance ; learning in school: When should a kid start kindergarten? / Elizabeth Weil -- Social and emotional development: child's feeling, emotional development, neurobiological perspective on early human deprivation / C.A. Nelson; Children's capacity to develop resiliency / Deirdre Breslin ; Emotions and the development of childhood depression: Bridging the gap / Pamela M. Cole, Joan Luby, and Margaret W. Sullivan; Entry into the social world, peers, play, and popularity, Children's social and moral reasoning about exclusion / M. Killen ; A profile of bullying at school / Dan Olweus ; When girls and boys play: What research tells us / Jeanetta G. Riley and Rose B. Jones ; Girls just want to be mean / Margaret Talbot ; The role of neurobiological deficits in childhood antisocial behavior / Stephanie H. M. van Goozen, Graeme Fairchild, and Gordon T. Harold -- Parenting and family issues: Children of lesbian and gay parents / C.J. Patterson; Evidence of infants' internal working models of attachment / S.C. Johnson, C.S. Dweck, and F.S. Chen ; Children of alcoholics / Cara E. Rice et al. ; Within-family differences in parent-child relations across the life course / J. Jill Suitor et al. ; Adoption is a successful natural intervention enhancing adopted children's IQ and school performance / Marinus H. van IJzendoorn and Femmie Juffer ; The case against breast-feeding / Hanna Rosin -- Cultural and societal influences: Social and cultural issues, Goodbye to girlhood / S. Weiner ; Trials for parents who chose faith over medicine / Dirk Johnson; How many fathers are best for a child / Meredith F. Small ; Childhood for sale / Michele Stockwell ; Special challenges, childhood's end / Christopher Hitchens ; How to win the weight battle / D. Kotz ; The epidemic that wasn't / Susan Okie ; Three reasons not to believe in an autism epidemic / Morton Ann Gernsbacher, Michelle Dawson, and H. Hill Goldsmith ; Getting back to the great outdoors / Amy Novotney ; What causes specific language impairment in children? / Dorothy V. M. Bishop ; Treatment and prevention of post traumatic stress reactions in children and adolescents exposed to disasters and terrorism: What is the evidence? / Annette La Greca and Wendy K. Silverman

[This book contains] articles by psychologists, educators, researchers, and writers providing effective and useful perspectives on today's important topics in the study of child growth and development. -Back cover