Characteristics of the parents: Parents' social cognitions and their parenting behaviors / Lynn Okagaki and Gary E. Bingham; Developmental origins of parenting, personality and relationship factors / John Vondra, Helen Bittmann Sysko, and Jay Belsky; Adolescent mothers and their children, an ecological perspective / Tom Luster and Julie Laser Haddow; Fathers, cultural and ecological perspectives / Ross D. Parke ... et al. -- Characteristics of the child: Effects of child characteristics on parenting / Katherine Hildebrandt Karraker and Priscilla K. Coleman; Parenting children with developmental disabilities / Robert M. Hodapp and Tran M. Ly -- Contextual influences on parenting: Parenting and the marital relationship / Frank D. Fincham and Julie H. Hall -- Parenting and personal social networks / Moncrieff Cochran and Susan K. Walker; Long arm of the job revisited, parenting in dual-earner families / Ann C. Crouter and Susan M. McHale; Neighborhood and community influences on parenting / James Garbarino ... [et al.]; Socioeconomic status, ethnicity, and parenting / Birgit Leyendecher ... [et al.]; Searches for what works in parenting interventions / Douglas R. Powell -- Parental behavior and children's development: Research on parental socialization of child outcomes, current controversies and future directions / Lynn Okagaki and Tom Luster