Biography
of
Diana
Blumberg
Baumrind
Diana
Blumberg
on
August
23
,
1927
.
She
was
the
first
of
two
daughters
born
to
Hyman
and
Mollie
Blumberg
,
a
lower
middle
-
class
couple
residing
in
one
of
New
York
?
s
Jewish
communities
.
Baumrind
a
strong
intellectual
friendship
with
her
father
,
an
atheist
with
a
strong
sense
of
Jewish
cultural
tradition
.
She
was
strongly
by
her
father
?
s
teachings
and
her
family
?
s
political
activism
and
social
consciousness
.
Baumrind
,
the
eldest
in
an
family
of
female
cousins
,
she
monitored
the
role
of
eldest
son
,
which
her
to
participate
in
serious
conversations
about
philosophy
,
ethics
,
literature
,
and
politics
.
,
in
her
teens
,
she
also
night
classes
to
supplement
her
personal
education
in
Marxist
philosophy
and
economics
.
Newly
married
,
Baumrind
began
graduate
school
in
1948
at
the
University
of
California
?
s
Berkeley
,
where
she
developmental
,
clinical
,
and
social
psychology
,
where
she
her
MA
in
1951
and
PhD
in
1955
.
Baumrind
her
thesis
under
Hubert
Coffey
,
who
initiated
the
NIMH
-
research
project
that
culminated
in
the
publication
of
Leary
?
s
Interpersonal
Diagnosis
of
Personality
(
1957
)
.
the
challenges
of
balancing
her
academic
pursuits
and
a
recent
divorce
,
Baumrind
chose
a
working
career
in
research
because
it
offered
the
flexible
hours
she
needed
to
raise
her
three
daughters
.
From
1960
,
she
working
at
the
Berkeley
Institute
of
Human
Development
,
where
she
committed
to
work
for
the
rest
of
her
career
.
Baumrind
extensive
research
on
parenting
practices
,
looking
particularly
at
parental
responsiveness
and
parental
demandingness
.
Her
research
observing
and
interviewing
primary
school
children
in
their
natural
environments
and
conducting
parental
interviews
.
Based
on
her
observations
,
she
that
there
were
three
different
styles
of
parenting
:
authoritarian
,
authoritative
,
and
permissive
.
In
1975
Baumrind
her
first
book
Early
Socialization
and
the
Discipline
Controversy
and
then
her
second
book
was
published
in
1995
Child
Maltreatment
and
Optimal
Caregiving
in
Social
Contexts
.
In
1998
,
she
the
prestigious
G
.
Stanley
Hall
Award
for
distinguished
contributions
to
developmental
psychology
by
the
American
Psychological
Association
.
Baumrind
tirelessly
throughout
her
career
,
well
into
her
80s
and
believed
in
exercising
daily
;
however
,
sadly
at
the
age
of
91
,
she
was
involved
in
a
car
accident
and
one
week
later
from
her
injuries
.
Crear