Notes that U.S. children are more mobile than children in other Western countries and Japan. Explores explanations of this "excess" mobility, concluding that most likely explanation is greater family disruption and childhood poverty in U.S. Identifies average number of moves for children at successive ages and models association of selected…

Investigated differences in use of and expenditures for children's health services across stages of family life cycle and how family characteristics affected medical care use and expenditures for children differently, depending on family life cycle stage. Found variation across family life cycle stages in terms of children's mean number of…

Data on 3,015 cohabitation relationships indicates that, although the presence of children has a strong and positive impact on stabilizing cohabitation relationships, characteristics of children such as number, sex, and age appear to have no significant effect. (JPS)

Examines data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to compare family experiences of Black and White children born in 1950-1954 with children born in 1980. Discusses one-parent households and proportion of children's lives spent in various family types. Suggests children's experience depends on famly type at birth. (NRB)

Results indicated offspring of within-group versus across-racial/ethnic marriages did not differ in personality test scores. As compared with offspring of within-group marriages, male offspring of across-group marriages scored higher on a factor measuring socially desirable traits and lower on a factor measuring intraception, while female…

Examined impact of disability among all coresident family members on children's severe and common behavioral problems and their probability of suffering accident, injury, or poisoning in previous year. Data from 11,248 nondisabled children aged 5 to 17 revealed that mean number of severe and common behavioral problems were significantly increased…

Reports that separation and divorce are associated with increases in behavior problems in children, regardless of the level of conflict between parents. Explains that in marriages that do not break up, high levels of marital conflict are associated with even greater increases in children's behavior problems. (Author/JDM)

Examines how "Journal of Marriage and the Family" has changed over past 50 years. Reviews development of field of family studies in areas of children and youth, sexuality, marital adjustment, divorce, and violence. Assesses progress and prospects of family field in several areas. (Author/NB)

The authors's concern is the delineation of family developmental processes from the time the children leave home to the time of their parents old age and also the investigation of qualitative aspects of kinship interaction and as different kinds of kinship ties, obligation, value consensus, generational transmission and conflict, and adult…

Reports on extent of children's involvement in the household division of labor and the meaning of this work for the family, using data from a random sample of 790 Nebraska parents. Data indicated that children's chores are an ubiquitous feature of family life. Discusses four rationales for these chores. (Author/RC)

Sweden's sex-role ideology and policy of counteracting sex-role learning through the schools are described. Correspondence between policy and practice is reported. Parents tended to affirm some non-sex-determined standards, while reinforcing sex-typed behavior more than cross-sex-typed behavior. Most teachers made efforts to counteract sex roles.…

Examines controversy concerning efficacy of federal family policy of the 1980s and its effects on family programs. Analyzes family planning and abortion policies and welfare issues. Compares programs devoted to elderly and to children. Concludes by considering the role of social scientists in the policy process and the social context of future…

Parents' characteristics that influence the incidence of spanking are investigated. Differences between boys and girls, mothers and fathers, older and younger children, Black and White, and married versus single women, as well as attributes of the child, the parent, and the social context are explored using multiple regression analysis. Profiles…

Data from 2,033 mainland Puerto Rican women revealed that growing proportion of Puerto Rican children were born outside of formal/informal coresidential unions. Among children born into intact unions, increasing proportion are offspring of informal unions. Puerto Rican children face high risks of family disruption during childhood. (Author/NB)

Parental activities such as attending cultural events, doing volunteer work, and socializing with friends are investigated in relation to the educational attainments of children. Differences are found between fathers' and mothers' activities and their effects on the attainments of boys and girls. Alternative explanations are considered. (EMK)