I: Conceptualizing the Family -- The Family and Social Contract Theory -- Authority and the Family: Some Considerations -- Comment: Family Relations: Response to “Authority and the Family” -- The Voluntary One-Parent Family—Some Qualms -- Comment: Response to “The Voluntary One-Parent Family—Some Qualms” -- Family, Class and School: The Capitalist Evolution -- Comment: Historical Concreteness in Family/Society Studies: Response to “Family, Class and School: The Capitalist Evolution” -- II: Women and Family Life -- Mother/Nature: A Skeptical Look at the Unique Naturalness of Maternal Parenting -- Maternal Thinking -- Comment: Response to Wilder’s “Mother/Nature,” and Ruddick’s “Maternal Thinking” -- III: Children’s Rights -- Ending the Double Standard: Equal Rights for Children -- Comment: Response to “Ending the Double Standard: Equal Rights for Children” -- Children’s Rights and Parents’ Virtues -- Comment: Response to “Children’s Rights and Parents’Virtues” -- Reply to Robison -- Children’s Needs and Parental Liberty: A Liberal Contradiction and How to Escape from It -- Comment: Response to “Children’s Needs and Parental Liberty: A Liberal Contradiction and How to Escape from It” -- Rights of Children, Rights of Parents, and the Moral Basis of the Family -- Comment: Response to “Rights of Children, Rights of Parents, and the Moral Basis of the Family” -- The Identity of the Child and the Right to Integration -- Comment: Response to “The Identity of the Child and the Right to Integration” -- The Rhetoric of Toys -- Comment: Response to “The Rhetoric of Toys” -- IV: Moral Education -- Kohlberg at the “Is-Ought” Gap -- Comment: Response to “Kohlberg at the ‘Is-Ought’ Gap” -- Content and Structure in Moral Development: ACrucial Distinction -- Bertrand Russell’s Approach to Moral Education in Early Childhood -- Comment: Response to “Bertrand Russell’s Approach to Moral Education in Early Childhood” -- Educating for Justice in an Unjust Society -- Comment: Response to “Educating for Justice in an Unjust Society” -- V: Medical Decisions that Affect Children -- On the Grounds for Parental Consent in Determining the Treatment of Defective Newborns -- Comment: Response to “On the Grounds of Parental Consent in Determining the Treatment of Defective Newborns” -- Proxy Consent in the Medical Context: The Infant as Person -- Comment: What Rights do Infants Have? Response to “Proxy Consent in the Medical Context: The Infant as Person” -- Author Index.

The United Nations' designation of 1979 as the International Year of the Child marked the first global effort undertaken to heighten awareness of the special needs of children. Activities initiated during this special year were designed to promote purposive and collaborative actions for the benefit of children throughout the world. Michigan State University's celebration of the International Year of the Child was held from Septem­ ber 1979 through June 1980. A variety of activities focused attention on the multiplicity of factors affecting the welfare of today's children as well as the children of the future. Many people involved with the university were concerned that benefits to children continue beyond the official time allocated to the celebration. The series Child Nurturance is one response to this concern. The first five volumes of Child Nurturance reflect directly the activities held on the Michigan State University campus and consist of original contributions from guest speakers and invited contributors. Subsequent biennial volumes will present original contributions from individuals representing such fields as anthropology, biology, education, human ecology, psychology, philosophy, sociology, and medicine. We hope the material presented in these volumes will promote greater understanding of children and encourage interdisciplinary inquiry into the individual, family, societal and cultural variables which influence their welfare and development. We would . like to express both our thanks and our admiration for who not only typed the camera-ready copy for each of Margaret Burritt the volumes, but also served as general manager of the entire project.

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