Children are just different from one another, especially in temperament. Some are shy, others bold; some active, others quiet; some confident, others…

- Sandra Scarr

Children thrive in a variety of family forms; they develop normally with single parents, with unmarried parents, with multiple caretakers in a commun…

- Sandra Scarr

Children need both latitude of expression and firmly enforced limits on their behaviors, in a blend that results in calm, patientmanagement. The key …

- Sandra Scarr

We know that babies develop as well in nonmaternal as in maternal care, as long as the care is of good quality. The issue is not who gives the care b…

- Sandra Scarr

Until the Second World War, it was unthinkable for a married woman of the working or middle class to disgrace her husband by working after marriage, …

- Sandra Scarr

Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be subjugated t…

- Sandra Scarr

Mothers and fathers act in mostly similar ways toward their young children. Psychologists are still highlighting small differencesrather than the ove…

- Sandra Scarr

It is important for practical and psychological reasons to call any reasonably stable group that rears children a family.... The advantage of this vi…

- Sandra Scarr

Parents ought to feel more comfortable about the care of their children than some experts would seem to permit. If children were so fragile and paren…

- Sandra Scarr