The Arc of Parenting from Epigenomes to Ethics

SYNOPSIS

This introduction provides an overview of tutorials regarding research on biological and social aspects of parenting. Contributors to this special issue describe the manner in which research is conducted from their own particular disciplinary perspectives and include individuals working within a range of areas from evolutionary theory, genetics and epigenetics, neuroscience, social developmental psychology, anthropology, sociology, and philosophy.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

The three editors contributed equally to all aspects of the workshop and to this Special Issue. Order of authorship was determined alphabetically. We thank the Society for Research in Child Development and our various departments in the University of Toronto for their generous support of this workshop. We also acknowledge the enormous contributions to the success of the meeting made by our students, by researchers from the Toronto area who acted as discussion facilitators, and by individuals, both from our own university and elsewhere, who contributed posters. Special thanks to Jodie Stewart who ushered us through every phase of workshop development, and without whom the workshop could not have gone smoothly. Her role was invaluable, from helping with the grant proposal at its inception, to creating and updating the website, to arranging travel and hotel accommodations, to designing the program, and finally to insuring we did not exceed our budget.