Parenting From Afar and the Reconfiguration of Family Across Distance

Maria Rosario T. de Guzman is an Associate Professor and Extension Specialist in the Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her work focuses on the intersection of culture, migration, family life, and child and adolescent development. She is also interested in how sociocultural factors relate to children's prosocial socialization. Jill Brown is an Associate Professor of Psychology at Creighton University. She received her BA and her PhD from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. While her roots are in the Midwest, her work has taken her to other parts of the world: she was a Peace Corps volunteer in Namibia and received a Fulbright Fellowship to study in Varanasi, India. She is the current President of the Society of Cross Cultural Research. Her current research focuses on kinship, adoption and socially distributed child care and family life, and cognition and thinking across cultures. Carolyn Pope Edwards is Willa Cather Professor Emeritus of Psychology and Child, Youth, and Family Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her interests center on social and moral development in cultural contexts, socialization processes within the family, and international early childhood education. She has conducted research and held research positions at universities in Italy, Norway, and Kenya.