ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we present major parenting theories and empirical findings concerned with how parenting changes over time from childhood to adolescence in different cultural contexts. We focus on parental warmth, behavioral control, rules/limit-setting, and knowledge solicitation, as these aspects of parenting are featured in the empirical analyses in the country-specific chapters to follow. Throughout the book, we adopt an ecological theoretical framework that situates parenting within cultural contexts. This chapter also describes features of the Parenting Across Cultures project that apply to all of the country-specific chapters. Specifically, we describe features of the samples, procedures, and measures. We also provide an overview of the common analytic plan that is followed in each country-specific chapter.
