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After discussing principles in cultural-ecological, parenting, and risk and protective factor frameworks, this chapter covers ethnotheories about play and early childhood development, maternal, paternal, and allocaregiver engagement in play and other stimulating activities with young children and their developmental sequalae in cultural communities in Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America, and a few Asian countries. Ethnotheories about the benefits of playful interactions for childhood development and levels of maternal and paternal engagement in play vary across global majority contexts. Though narrowing, maternal engagement in play surpasses that of fathers, and allocaregiver engagement in play was higher than that of fathers in some cultural communities. There is support for the benefits of adult playful interactions for children’s cognitive and social skills across cultural communities, but the effect sizes are sometimes small. Potential mediating and moderating factors that influence associations between paternal and maternal engagement in play and childhood outcomes are introduced.

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Beliefs About and Engagement Patterns in Father-Child, Mother-Child, and Allocaregiver-Child Play and Developmental Outcomes in Global Majority Societies

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  • Jaipaul L. Roopnarine,
  • Wusirige

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After discussing principles in cultural-ecological, parenting, and risk and protective factor frameworks, this chapter covers ethnotheories about play and early childhood development, maternal, paternal, and allocaregiver engagement in play and other stimulating activities with young children and their developmental sequalae in cultural communities in Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America, and a few Asian countries. Ethnotheories about the benefits of playful interactions for childhood development and levels of maternal and paternal engagement in play vary across global majority contexts. Though narrowing, maternal engagement in play surpasses that of fathers, and allocaregiver engagement in play was higher than that of fathers in some cultural communities. There is support for the benefits of adult playful interactions for children’s cognitive and social skills across cultural communities, but the effect sizes are sometimes small. Potential mediating and moderating factors that influence associations between paternal and maternal engagement in play and childhood outcomes are introduced.