Author describes 16 types of disturbed fathers and their effects on the behavior of their children. (CB)

Explores differences in maternal and paternal parenting styles and involvement, the differences between parents' and adolescents' perceptions of parenting style and involvement, and changes in parenting style and involvement between the adolescents' 9th and 12th grade years. Subjects were 244 ninth graders from the Southeast and Midwest. Discusses…

Addresses the role of parents as contributing members of their children's educational team. Investigates effect of parental involvement on academic success from primary through secondary school levels. Notes that research has repeatedly demonstrated connection between family and achievement. Supports premise that parental involvement plays…

Examined 11th and 12th graders from upward striving, overprotective, indifferent, and conflicted homes concerning their attitudes toward their parents and academic achievement. Found upward-striving patterns of parenting significantly associated with underachievement. Pressuring these adolescents aroused reactions of anger, resentment, and…

This article addresses some of the problems that parents of handicapped children face and the role that counseling can play in assisting these parents. The article focuses upon counseling and upon parental adjustment regardless of the adolescent's disability. (Author/DB)

Studied adolescent females at a state training school and at a high school, measuring perceived parental acceptance. Demonstrated that incarcerated females viewed their mothers and fathers more negatively than did nonincarcerated females. Indicated more ambivalent results in the mother-daughter than the father-daughter relationship. Discusses…

Examines whether parents are involved differently with the education of their adolescent daughters and sons. Results show that parents help daughters and sons in different ways. Findings are discussed in terms of parents' traditional socialization practices versus a shift in parental treatment in response to social trends. (Author/MKA)

Examined the relationships between adolescent drug use (N=145) and perceived parent attitudes and behaviors. Relationships between parental use of drugs and adolescent use of the same drugs were moderate and roughly equivalent across drugs. Parental use of marijuana was strongly related to the adolescent's use of harder drugs. (JAC)

Sought to determine if a correlation existed between the incidence of depression among 24 adolescents admitted to a hospital psychiatric service and the incidence of depression among their parents. No correlation between adolescent and paternal depression was found. (Since mothers evidenced no depression, their test results were not correlated…

Adolescents' perceptions of parental behavior (parental control, maternal love and control, and maternal hostility and autonomy) was shown to discriminate among juvenile offenders and nonoffenders. (Author/CM)

This paper examines the extent to which teenagers involve their parents in decision making on the resolution of unwanted conceptions, even though legalization of abortion allows them to terminate their pregnancies without parental knowledge. (RMH)

Intergenerational conflict and intimacy levels between New Zealand parents and adolescents were measured. Most adolescents and parents perceived their relationships to be harmonious and happy. Adolescents were as intimate with fathers as with mothers. There was a trend for conflict to be less with fathers than with mothers, particularly for girls.…

Discusses relationship between family structure and achievement of adolescent developmental task of separation-individuation. Views adolescent separation-individuation as continuum. Suggests that successful accomplishment of separation-individuation is affected by such factors as conflict, parental relationship, and accomplishment of previous…

Used clustered sample household survey of 329 males and females aged 14 to 17, and 470 of their parents to examine influence of parental factors on adolescent sexual behavior and contraceptive use. Found parents' reported behavioral norms accounted for 5% of variance in whether adolescents had had intercourse, and for 33% of variance in…

In order to examine the theory that children often mold parental actions, analyzed whether parents are consistent with each other or with themselves in parenting attitudes and practices. Parents largely acted alike, although fathers more often acted in ways independent of how their wives were perceived to act. (RJM)