"[In this book] The editors and contributors challenge mainstream parenting and child development scholars by drawing attention to non-typical parenting conditions that impact millions of children worldwide. Cutting across disciplinary and cultural boundaries, each chapter systematically tells stories and presents data of children raised by parents from afar in diverse family structures. Contributors tackle distinct parenting-from-afar conditions, ranging fromincarcerated parents to military and refugee families to immigrant families, all in a well-balanced and appropriately-sensitive manner. This powerful volume is a must-read, pioneering compendium forscientists, practitioners, educators, interventionists, and policy makers." -- Gustavo Carlo, Millsap Professor of Diversity and Multicultural Studies and Co-Director, Center for Children and Families Across Cultures, University of Missouri"In Parenting from Afar, international scholars describe the diversity of family arrangements across physical distances, expanding our views of traditional family life, roles, and coping, as well as questioning norms and beliefs about parenting, child rearing, kinship, and the 'normal family.' Each fascinating chapter identifies the centrality of the ecocultural context for understanding family, challenging established developmental theories andsetting the stage for future research that must address such diversity." -- Deborah Best, William L. Poteat Professor of Psychology, Wake Forest University"What these editors do so well is provide convincing evidence that families that are close-knit while living far apart are not only found in the 'majority world' but also exist, albeit largely ignored in the scholarly literature, across the Western Educated Industrialized Rich and democratic world. This book should be required reading for all who study 'the family.'" -- Jonathan Tudge, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro
