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The most important message of this study is that across the great diversity of American society there is a broad consensus on a number of specific ways in which adults should be engaged with other people’s children to raise a next generation that is healthy, responsible, involved, and productive. The results of our study confirm that these expectations are not the province of any one group or type of community in America, but are widely supported by a diverse spectrum of Americans.
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Scales, P.C. (2003). Multiple Normative Americas: The Differences among Us. In: Other People’s Kids. The Search Institute Series on Developmentally Attentive Community and Society, vol 2. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0147-3_9
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