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Download full textNimon, Maureen – 1993
Because violence is an inescapable reality of the world, this paper asks the question, "Does violence have any place in children's literature?" For centuries, children's literature has encompassed stories in which the virtuous were rewarded and evildoers suffered retribution. Historically, violence was frequently part of punishment.…
Descriptors: Adolescent Literature, Attitude Change, Books, Child Responsibility
Taylor, Lorraine C.; And Others – 1992
Previous research has indicated that African-American students, particularly those from low-income environments tend to be at greater risk for low academic achievement. However, income level is only one factor that contributes to low academic achievement. This study investigated the influence of other factors, including parental use of nurturant…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Black Family, Black Students
Helling, Mary Kay; And Others – 1991
The purpose of this study was to investigate a possible link between differences in parents' reactions to conflict involving their children and their children's older peers or siblings, and differences in their children's self-monitoring level. It was hypothesized that children who were high in self-monitoring would come from environments in which…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Child Responsibility, Children, Conflict
Sibling Relationships and Adjustment in Children with Disabled and Nondisabled Brothers and Sisters.
McHale, Susan M.; And Others – 1989
A study was made of relationships between particular family dynamics and the well-being of children with disabled siblings. Attention focused on the relation to children's adjustment of three issues emphasized in the literature: (1) children's family responsibilities, including sibling caregiving and household tasks, which may be more demanding…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Child Responsibility, Children, Comparative Analysis
Reever, Karen E.; And Others – 1979
Frequently, the principle reason for institutionalizing cognitively impaired older persons is the caregivers' inability to continue providing help, and not the severity of deficits. Factors related to the caregivers' feelings of burden in a sample of 29 community-living older persons with senile dementia were investigated. Caregivers were spouses…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Child Responsibility, Emotional Response, Family Attitudes
Skoe, Eva E.; Gooden, Alethia – 1993
This study examined care-based moral reasoning in 23 white females and 23 white males, ages 11 through 12 years in a small Canadian eastcoast town. Subjects were administered the Ethic of Care Interview (ECI), a measure administered in a structured interview format consisting of four dilemmas. In addition to three standardized, interpersonal…
Descriptors: Child Responsibility, Comparative Analysis, Females, Foreign Countries
Farrell, Edmund J. – 1979
This compilation of statistics, opinions, and projections focuses on the state of children in contemporary society. A review of statistical data on the conditions of childhood includes data on child mortality rates, illiteracy, malnutrition, energy resources available to children, and childhood suicide. Teenage pregnancies, alcoholism and drug…
Descriptors: Child Advocacy, Child Responsibility, Child Role, Child Welfare
Thomas, Jeanne L.; And Others – 1985
The family is the primary source of supportive services to the aged in this country. A study was undertaken to examine two issues related to developmental functions of relationships with adult children: the parent's view of assistance received from adult children, and age differences in those views; and, secondly, the functions of assistance…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Background, Child Responsibility, Family Relationship
Phillip, Di-Ann G.; And Others – 1992
The amount and type of household responsibility expected of African-American children continues to be overlooked in the literature. This study examined the relationship between familial structure and the amount and type of assigned child household duties. Data was obtained from a subset utilized in the National Survey of Family Household data,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Black Family, Blacks
Swenson, Janet P. – 1977
To focus on the developmental uniquenesses of the American Indian child and its implications for supportive care, custody, placement and adoption was one of the major goals of this conference. Attendees addressed the growing concern among Indian communities over the loss of their children and the lack of child welfare services which would preserve…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Adoption, American Indians, Attitude Change
Kalichman, Seth C.; And Others – 1986
Victims of father-daughter incest may develop a number of social and emotional problems which motivate them to seek mental health services. A study was conducted to (1) investigate the patterns of father-daughter incest responsibility attribution by clinicians working within mental health facilities and (2) explore clinicians' tendency to report…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Attribution Theory, Child Abuse
Clark, Carol A. M. – 1981
To investigate whether low school attendance rates in Guatemala (about 35% of primary school aged children do not attend) are due primarily to the need for children in low income families to contribute to family income or child care and other housekeeping tasks, time use data were collected in 4 rural villages from mothers of 369 children, aged…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Attendance, Child Labor, Child Responsibility
Slawski, Carl – 1978
Characteristics of successful living arrangements in intentional communities are presented by examining kibbutz life. The first section discusses four bases for establishing and maintaining an intentional community: interest, justice, cultural flowering, and love (deep interpersonal and intergroup relationships and religious values). The second…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Child Responsibility, Children, Collective Settlements
