{"id":610,"date":"2015-09-09T17:38:15","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T22:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/?p=610"},"modified":"2015-09-09T17:38:15","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T22:38:15","slug":"parenting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/2015\/09\/09\/parenting\/","title":{"rendered":"Parenting by Number and Metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_611\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-611\" style=\"width: 240px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/files\/2015\/09\/1236894043_610e48e4ac_o.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-611\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/files\/2015\/09\/1236894043_610e48e4ac_o-240x300.png\" alt=\"A cartoon by Greg Williams, Flickr CC. Click to expand. Original: https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2Tipvn.\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/files\/2015\/09\/1236894043_610e48e4ac_o-240x300.png 240w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/files\/2015\/09\/1236894043_610e48e4ac_o.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-611\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cartoon by Greg Williams, Flickr CC. Click to expand. Original: https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2Tipvn.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Looking for some perspectives on parenting? Here are a few articles to revisit.<\/p>\n<p>In January, Sandra Hofferth presented to CCF a briefing report on <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/2015\/01\/28\/377\/\">Child-Rearing Norms and Practices in Contemporary American Families<\/a>. Hofferth, Professor, Family Science, at University of Maryland\u2019s School of Public Health, notes that although a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/library\/publications\/2014\/demo\/p70-139.html\">Census Report<\/a> had found some differences by family type, most American parents&#8212;married, divorced, or single&#8212;read to their children, monitor their children\u2019s media youth, and engage their children in extra-curricular activities. Revisit Hofferth\u2019s report <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/2015\/01\/28\/377\/\">here<\/a> for how parents are doing, by the numbers.<\/p>\n<p>In August, Michelle Janning, a sociologist at Whitman College and CCF Co-Chair, shared a three-part series on parenting: her interest was in overparenting and cross cultural metaphors.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/families\/2015\/08\/24\/overprotective-parenting-back-to-school-edition\/\">Overprotective Parenting, Back-to-School Edition<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/families\/2015\/08\/25\/american-helicopters-danish-curling-brooms-and-british-lawnmowers\/\">American Helicopters, Danish Curling Brooms, and British Lawnmowers<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/families\/2015\/08\/27\/anxiety-social-class-and-a-gallery-of-parenting-advice\/\">Anxiety, Social Class, and a Gallery of Parenting Advice<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='author-bios author-bios-bottom'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/editors\/virginia-rutter\/\"><strong>Virginia Rutter<\/strong><\/a> is a sociologist at Framingham State University, a board member of the Council on Contemporary Families, and a regular contributor to both <a href=\"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\">Girl w\/ Pen!<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/families\">Families As They Really Are<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Looking for some perspectives on parenting? 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Hofferth, Professor, Family Science, at University of Maryland\u2019s School of Public Health, notes that although a recent Census Report had found some differences [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":495,"featured_media":611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[38831,29,20427,38832,4374,38830],"class_list":["post-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academic-achievement","tag-class","tag-concerted-cultivation","tag-extra-curricular-activities","tag-parenting","tag-socioeconomic-class"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/files\/2015\/09\/1236894043_610e48e4ac_o.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/495"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":612,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions\/612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/ccf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}