Four years Old in an Urban Community

<p>John and Elizabeth Newson investigate the upbringing of seven hundred Nottingham children as they reach the age of four. Parents are interviewed in their homes with a realistic yet human approach and the minimum of technical jargon, and the open-ended questions allow them to produce ''a detailed and descriptive study of how parents do in fact treat their children and - equally important - how children treat their parents.''</p><p>No one can fail to be impressed by the concern and perceptiveness shown by mothers of all classes, different though their approach may be to the common problems of the parent - child relationship.</p><p>This book was first published in 1968.</p>