JAIPAUL L. ROOPNARINE is Professor of Education at Brooklyn College of The City University of New York.

• Preface, Irving E. Sigel Overview Issues in Childhood Socialization in the Caribbean, Hyacinth Evans and Rose Davies Class, Race, and Gender Issues in Child Rearing in the Caribbean, Elsa A. Leo-Rhymie Family Socialization in an East Indian Village in Guyana: A Focus on Fathers, Jaipaul L. Roopnarine, Priscilla Snell-White, Nancy Beth Riegraf, Joan Wolfsenberger, Ziarat Hossain, and Smita Mathur Caribbean Fatherhood: Under-researched, Misunderstood, Janet Brown, Arthur Newland, Patricia Anderson, and Barry Chevannes The Idea of Childhood and Age of Sexual Maturity among Indians in Trinidad: A Socio-historical Scrutiny, Patricia Mohammed The Status of Child Care Supports for Jamaican Families, Kerida Scott-McDonald Raising Children with Disabilities in the Caribbean, Marigold J. Thorburn The Impact of Parent-Child Socialization on the Development of Conduct Disorder in Jamaican Male Adolescents, Caludette Crawford-Brown Child Shifting: A Survival Strategy for Teenage Mothers, Pauline A. Russell-Brown, Beverly Norville, and Cheryl Griffith Issues of Reunification of Migrant West Indian Children in the United Kingdom, Elaine Arnold Mental Health Issues and Family Socialization in the Caribbean, Jacqueline Sharpe Clinical Practice with Caribbean Immigrant Families in the United States: The Intersection of Emigration, Immigration, Culture, and Race, David A. Baptiste, Jr., Kenneth V. Hardy, and Laurie Lewis Toward and Integration: Diverse Issues in Examining Caribbean Families, Jaipaul L. Roopnarine Author Index Subject Index