Elizabeth Newson & John Newson 
Four years Old in an Urban Community [PDF ebook] 

John and Elizabeth Newson investigate the upbringing of seven hundred Nottingham children as they reach the age of four. Parents are interviewed in their homes with a realistic yet human approach and the minimum of technical jargon, and the open-ended questions allow them to produce  »a detailed and descriptive study of how parents do in fact treat their children and – equally important – how children treat their parents. »

No one can fail to be impressed by the concern and perceptiveness shown by mothers of all classes, different though their approach may be to the common problems of the parent – child relationship.

This book was first published in 1968.