The developmental transactional ecological framework posits a child’s behavior at any point in time as a product of reciprocal transactions among the child’s characteristics (genetic/biological/physical, cognitive/linguistic, and social/emotional competencies) and the caregiving environment (dynamic interrelationships among child behavior, caregiver responses to such behavior, and the dyadic relationship) and the broader ecological context (multiple levels of social organization, including family, neighborhood, and child care).