Compared beliefs, perceptions, and decisions of Black and White adolescents on having children. Both Black males and females expressed stronger beliefs than White respondents that having children promotes greater marital success, personal security, and approval. Blacks expressed stronger beliefs that couples should have as many children as they…

Examined relationships between sex roles, domestic roles, and occupational expectations of American adolescents. Domestic and occupational expectations were intricately interwoven for females, but were relatively discrete spheres for males. Occupational expectations of adolescent females were related to both generalized sex-role attitudes and…

Data from National Longitudinal Study of Education and Labor Market Experiences of Young Women tested effect of three types of "role hiatus experiences" on taste for paid employment and on sex role beliefs. Experiences of employment, occupational training, and college attendance altered tastes for employment, but not sex role attitudes. (Author)

This study analyzes the perceptions of family of orientation and family of procreation of a white middle- and lower-middle-class sample at four transitional stages. The findings suggest that perceptions of one's parents, spouse and children are strongly influenced by transitional stage and sex. (Author)

Found that parental hitting, reported by 17 percent of the sample, failed to affect attitudes about women's roles. Behavior did affect attitudes concerning the use of violence against women. Suggests men are more likely to approve of violence against women if they observed their fathers hitting their mothers. (Author)

Describes the development and content of a comprehensive measure of perceived parental role responsibilities among individuals employed fulltime. Responses from 600 working women and men were used to select items. The final 78-item measure consists of 13 scales, all of which showed good reliability and construct validity. (Author/RC)

African American and white men's attitudes toward gender roles, changes in gender role attitude, and maternal and life course influences on gender role attitude are examined. Findings indicate that there are racial differences in attitude, that attitudes change over time, and that individual status and life course processes influence attitudes.…

Compared respondents from national survey of Australian young adults who experienced parental divorce as children with respondents from two-parent families on attitudes toward marriage and family life. Compared to those from intact families, respondents from divorced families held more negative attitudes toward family of origin. Found few…

Points out that changing attitudes are responsible for more women working outside the home. Shows that the tendency for women to work and their higher status when working reinforce each other. Suggests husbands' attitudes become more favorable towards working women when they become used to their wives working. (Author/RC)

Used data from National Survey of Families and Households to examine cohabitation. Couples who cohabited before marriage reported lower quality marriages, lower commitment to institution of marriage, more individualistic views of marriage (wives only), and greater likelihood of divorce than couples who did not cohabit. Effects were generally…

Explored whether couples' employment/retirement patterns relate to perceptions of marital dependence and whether relationships are contingent on gender role attitudes. Data from 763 couples revealed that the positive association between husband's retirement and his spouse's perceptions of his dependence on relationship predominated among couples…

Elementary school children (N=50) completed a questionnaire related to their perception of having working mothers. Using path analysis, found older children, girls, and children who stay alone after school feel more negatively affected by their mothers' employment than younger children, boys, and children who are supervised after school. (Author)

Examined the impact of married women's work on the well-being of husbands. Proposed that the social context and the meaning given to women's work influences husbands' well-being. Results indicate that the social context within which women's work is embedded is different for black husbands and white husbands. (RJM)

Intensive study over four years of one class in the women's college of a private coeducational university yields varied types of adult aspirations. Most striking is the large number of women whose adult aspirations remain unaffected by the college years. (Author)

Analyzed determinants of wives' perceptions of fairness of division of household labor. Data from 1988 National Survey of Families and Households indicated that husbands' contributions to "female" tasks and appreciation of women's household labor were most important determinants of wives' perceptions of fairness, with strength of…