**Meet the editor**

Maria Lucia Seidl-de-Moura is a full professor at the State University of Rio de Janeiro. She has a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology and is a Fellow from the Brazilian National Research Council - Level 1A. She coordinates the research group Social Interaction and Development, developing studies on parental beliefs and practices, early mother-infant interactions and development of self,

under an evolutionary developmental psychology perspective. Formerly, among other positions, she has been the President of the National Association for the Graduate Studies and Research, head of the psychology committee at Brazilian National Research Council and member of the National Committee for Evaluation of Graduate Programs in Psychology. She was one of the founders of The Brazilian Association of Developmental Psychology.

Contents

**Preface VII**

Marin

**and Relatedness 1**

Chapter 3 **Paternity in the Brazilian Context 35**

Mauro Luís Vieira

Augusto Piccinini

**Communities 65** Patricia Mawusi Amos

Esther F. Akinsola

Chapter 1 **Brazilian Mothers' Cultural Models: Socialization for Autonomy**

Chapter 2 **Child-Rearing Practices of Brazilian Mothers and Fathers: Predictors and Impact on Child Development 17**

Chapter 4 **Parenting and Culture – Evidence from Some African**

Chapter 6 **Parenting in Amazonian Riverside Context 97**

Santos and Fernando Augusto Ramos

Chapter 5 **Cultural Variations in Parenting Styles in the Majority World Evidences from Nigeria and Cameroon 79**

Chapter 7 **Socialization Goals of Mothers and Grandmothers of Children**

Maria Lucia Seidl-de-Moura, Rafael Vera Cruz de Carvalho and

Cesar Augusto Piccinini, Patricia Alvarenga and Angela Helena

Mauro Luís Vieira, Maria Aparecida Crepaldi, Carina Nunes Bossardi, Lauren Beltrão Gomes, Simone Dill Azeredo Bolze and César-

Simone Souza da Silva Costa, Tatiana Afonso, Thamyris Maués dos

**in Institutional Shelter Situation in the North of Brazil 115** Lília Iêda Chaves Cavalcante and Celina Maria Colino Magalhães
