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Parent and child

Here are entered works on the psycho-social interaction between parents and their minor children. Works on the methods and techniques of raising children are entered under Child rearing. Works on the skills, attributes and attitudes needed for parenthood are entered under Parenting.

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• Children and adults
• Interpersonal relations

• Parent and child -- Biblical teaching
• Parent and child -- Early works to 1800
• Parent and child -- England
• Parent and child -- Fiction
• Parent and child -- Great Britain
• Parent and child -- Japan
• Parent and child -- Juvenile fiction
• Parent and child -- Juvenile literature
• Parent and child -- Religious aspects
• Parent and child -- United States
• Adoption
• Child abuse
• Father and child
• Filial piety
• Mother and child
• Parent and adult child
• Parent and child in literature
• Parent and teenager
• Parental deprivation
• Parenting

• Child and parent
• Children and parents
• Parent-child relations
• Parents and children

• Pogo Primer for Parents (TV Division) (Washington: Children's Bureau, 1961), by Walt Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Parental Influence, Authority, and Instruction: Their Power and Importance, by William Bacon (page images at MOA)
• "Will They Fly a Plane Into Our House?" How to Talk to Children About Terrorism (Norwalk, CT: Play2Grow; Plainview, NY: Childswork/Childsplay, c2001), by Lawrence E. Shapiro (PDF at lookstein.org)
• The American Child (1913), by Elizabeth McCracken (Gutenberg text)
• The American Child (Boston and New York: Houghton Miffin Co., 1913), by Elizabeth McCracken, illust. by Alice Austin
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Confident Children and How They Grow, by Richard L. Strauss (HTML at bible.org)
• The Century of the Child (New York and London; G. P. Putnam's Sons, c1909), by Ellen Key, trans. by Francis Maro (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Children Trap: The Biblical Blueprint for Education (Fort Worth, TX: Dominion Press; Nashville et al.: T. Nelson, c1986), by Robert L. Thoburn (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks: or, An Inquiry Into the Circumstances Which Give Rise to Influence and Authority, in the Different Members of Society (third edition; London: Printed for J. Murray, 1781), by John Millar (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Origin of the Distinction of Ranks (fourth edition, corrected; Edinburgh: Printed for W. Blackwood and Longman, Huest, Rees, and Orme, 1806), by John Millar (text at McMaster)

• The Invisible Spy (4 volumes; London: Printed for T. Gardner, 1755), by Eliza Fowler Haywood
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at Google
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at Google

• Mothers and Other Monsters (2005), by Maureen F. McHugh (multiple formats with commentary at Small Beer Press)
• Fledgling (2009), by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller (multiple formats with commentary at Baen Free Library)
• The Prodigal Parents (1938), by Sinclair Lewis (text in Australia; NO US ACCESS)
• Cast Adrift, by T. S. Arthur (Gutenberg text)
• Cast Adrift (Philadelphia: J. M. Stoddart and Co., c1872), by T. S. Arthur (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ashes (Cenere): A Sardinian Story (London and New York: J. Lane, 1908), by Grazia Deledda, trans. by Katharine Wylde
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Music to My Sorrow (included on a Baen CD), ed. by Mercedes Lackey and Rosemary Edghill (zipped CD ISO at archive.org.; 346 MB)
• Homeland (Garden City, NY: Doubleday and Co., 1946), by Georges Surdez (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Way of All Flesh, by Samuel Butler
  • Gutenberg text
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• The Way of All Flesh (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1916), by Samuel Butler, contrib. by William Lyon Phelps and R. A. Streatfeild (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Falkner: A Novel (3 volumes; London: Saunders and Otley, 1837), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • all volumes bound together: multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Falkner: A Novel (New York: Harper and Bros., 1837), by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Red Ruth: The Birth of Universal Brotherhood (different titles on different pages; Kansas City, MO: Burton Pub. Co., c1916), by Anna Ratner Shapiro, illust. by Carl S. Junge (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen
  • Gutenberg text and audio reading
  • HTML at Bibliomania
• Mansfield Park (Everyman's Library edition; London: J. M. Dent and Sons; New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1913), by Jane Austen, contrib. by R. Brimley Johnson
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Laws Respecting Women, as They Regard Their Natural Rights or Their Connections and Conduct: In Which Their Interests and Duties as Daughters, Wards, Heiresses, Spinsters, Sisters, Wives, Widows, Mothers, Legatees, Executrixes, etc., are Ascertained and Enumerated; Also, the Obligations of Parent and Child, and the Condition of Minors (London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1777) (page images at HathiTrust)

• New Friends, Good Friends? (Elgin, IL: Chariot Books, c1992), by Josh McDowell and Dottie McDowell, illust. by Kathy Kulin-Sandel (PDF at josh.org)
• Editha's Burglar: A Story for Children (Boston: Jordan, Marsh and Co., 1893), by Frances Hodgson Burnett, illust. by Henry Sandham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Editha's Burglar: A Story for Children (Boston: Jordan, Marsh and Co., 1898), by Frances Hodgson Burnett, illust. by Henry Sandham (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• A Cherry Tree (London et al.: Pickering and Inglis, ca. 1901), by Amy Le Feuvre (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The End of a Coil (London: J. Nisbet and Co., ca. 1880), by Susan Warner (Gutenberg text)
• The Flight of Pony Baker: A Boy's Town Story (New York and London: Harper and Bros., 1902), by William Dean Howells (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Florence Arnott: or, Is She Generous? (New York and London: D. Appleton and Co., 1856), by Maria J. McIntosh (page images and uncorrected OCR text at MOA)
• A Puzzling Pair (New York et al.: F. H. Revell Co., 1898), by Amy Le Feuvre, illust. by Eveline Lance
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • multiple formats at Google
• The Settlers: A Tale of Virginia, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (London and New York: F. Warne and Co., c1904), by Beatrix Potter (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Tale of Benjamin Bunny (New York: F. Warne and Co., c1904), by Beatrix Potter (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Tattine, by Ruth Ogden (Gutenberg text)
• Tattine (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co.; London: E. Nister, ca. 1898), by Ruth Ogden (multiple formats at archive.org)
• "Worlds Not Realized" (London: Bell and Daldy, 1856), by Mrs. Alfred Gatty (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Politics of Reproduction: Adoption, Abortion, and Surrogacy in the Age of Neoliberalism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2019), ed. by Modhumita Roy and Mary Thompson (PDF at Ohio State)
• Institutional Care and Placing-Out: The Place of Each in the Care of Dependent Children (Chicago: Marks Nathan Jewish Orphan Home, 1930), by Elias L. Trotzkey (page images at HathiTrust)

• I Hope My Daddy Dies, Mister (Philadelphia: Dorrance and Co., c1975), by Kenneth J. Herrmann (PDF with commentary at Brockport)
• The Importance of Fathers in the Healthy Development of Children (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2006), by Jeffrey Rosenberg and William Bradford Wilcox (PDF at fdlp.gov)
• The Emotional Life of Nations, by Lloyd DeMause (HTML at psychohistory.com)

• The Importance of Fathers in the Healthy Development of Children (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2006), by Jeffrey Rosenberg and William Bradford Wilcox (PDF at fdlp.gov)
• The Case for Father Custody (c1999), by Daniel Amneus (PDF at American Fathers)

• Our Mother-Tempers (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989), by Marion J. Levy (HTML at UC Press)
• Psychology of the Unconscious: A Study of the Transformations and Symbolisms of the Libido (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1916), by C. G. Jung, trans. by Beatrice M. Hinkle
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Gothic Family Romance: Heterosexuality, Child Sacrifice, and the Anglo-Irish Colonial Order (Durham, NC and London: Duke University Press, 1999), by Margot Gayle Backus (page images at HathiTrust)

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