{"id":8864,"date":"2019-05-22T16:12:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/proximal_care\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:12:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:12:20","slug":"proximal_care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/proximal_care\/","title":{"rendered":"Proximal care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This term distinguishes parental care involving high amounts of holding and body contact from distal care, where infants are put down, and which is more common in Western cultures. &nbsp; The term derives from anthropological research, where hunter-gatherer bands have been found to carry their babies in slings more than 80% of daylight hours, to respond rapidly to infant frets, and to breast feed frequently on demand.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"environment_of_evolutionary_adaptedness\">Environment of evolutionary adaptedness<\/a>, <a href=\"evolutionary_psychology\">Evolutionary psychology<\/a>, Kangaroo-care  <\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This term distinguishes parental care involving high amounts of holding and body contact from distal care, where infants are put down, and which is more common in Western cultures. &nbsp; The term derives from anthropological research, where hunter-gatherer bands have been found to carry their babies in slings more than 80% of daylight hours, to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/proximal_care\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Proximal care&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}