This vital volume advances an in-depth understanding of how parenting infants in the first year of life is similar and different in two contrasting contexts in each of five countries - Argentina, Belgium, Israel, Italy, and the United States - providing a global understanding of parenting across cultures.

Marc H. Bornstein holds positions at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, and UNICEF. He is President Emeritus of the Society for Research in Child Development, Founnding Editor of Parenting: Science and Practice, and Editor Emeritus of Child Development. Bornstein has edited several books, including the five-volume Handbook of Parenting for Routledge.

1. Cultural Approaches to Parenting and Infancy: An Introduction 2. Studying Intra-Cultural and Cross-Cultural Parenting and Infancy: General Methods 3. Argentina: Urban and Rural Parenting and Infancy in a South American Context 4. Belgium: Bilingual and Monolingual Parenting and Infancy 5. Israel: Parenting and Infancy in the City and on Kibbutz 6. Italy: Parenting and Infancy in the Industrialized North and the Agrarian South 7. The United States: Metropolitan and Appalachian Parenting and Infancy 8. Cultural Specificities and Cultural Universals in Parenting and Infancy: Argentina, Belgium, Israel, Italy, and the United States 9. Cultural Approaches to Parenting and Infancy: Some Conclusions