A GLOBAL VIEW ON COMPLEX PARENTING DYNAMICS FOR BETTER PRACTICES AND SOCIAL POLICY TO OVERCOME 21ST CENTURY CRISES

ABSTRACT

Human cooperation and compassion are fundamental moral values of the human condition to nurture healthy parent-child relationships. Around the world and across generations crises associated with socio-cultural changes and technological advancements test these moral values. By providing a synthesis of the literature on parenting styles across cultures and using a global developmental framework, the evolution of parenting strategies show that there is an adjustment when families face manmade (anthropogenic) and natural disasters. According to the Bioecological Model of Human Development (Bronfenbrenner & Morris, 2006), individuals develop in complex layers of nested systems (micro, meso, exo, macro), which directly and indirectly influence child development. As a result, individual (idiographic) developmental pathways evolve across the lifespan. The current chapter discusses the high influx of mass migration, a natural response to societal dilemmas of the 21st century and explains how this type of relocation has forced a change in the global perspective of social policy. © 2021 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc.