Adolescents feel that bearing children is the responsibility of the couple and increasing numbers are deciding not to become parents. A majority feel that legalized marriage and the nuclear family is the most important setting for rearing children. Ambivalence of changing options in life plans results in uncertainty about childbearing. (Author)

Examines longitudinal relationship between adolescents' involvement in family decision making, parental warmth, and marital quality assessed in 1981 and parent-adolescent attitude dissimilarity assessed in 1987. Suggests that, when adolescents were actively involved in decision making and their relationships with fathers were warm,…