The influence of growing up in a welfare home on new mothers' chances of employment is investigated. Data are analyzed using logit and ordinary least-squares equations. Attitudes toward work and welfare are distinguished. Findings do not support a relationship between new mothers' employment and an intergenerationally transmitted welfare culture.…

Explored relationship between family variables and adolescents' sexual behavior among 224 Latino and 160 Anglo adolescents. Sexual behavior regressed on family variables explained 30% of variance in sexual behavior. Results suggest that conservative maternal attitudes about sex and presence of dating rules that are followed or enforced delay…

Sampled 699 adolescents and their families to examine effects of parenting practices on development of adolescent drinking, delinquency, and problem behaviors. Findings confirmed that parental support and monitoring were important predictors of adolescent outcomes even after taking into account critical demographic/family factors. Peer orientation…

The aim of this research was to increase understanding of the relationship between family variables and measures of child welfare. Conclusions were that welfare status is not explained by the use of individual measures on their own. (Author)

Discusses family influence on health care by addressing questions about appropriate selection of informants and data sources when investigating family and health concerns, questions about sample selection and the ability to generalize findings to the population as a whole, and questions concerning the subject's ability to differentiate between…

Tested a model linking structural and interpersonal family variables with self-concept variables of self-esteem and son/daughter identity salience (relative importance of being a son or daughter for defining one's self) for 655 high school students. Family support was found to have largest effects on self-concept variables (yielding positive…

Examined in this review are personal ethics, changes in actual sexual behavior, social and personal factors influencing behavior, impact of sexual relations, and research theory and design. (CJ)

An analysis of the association of six independent family variables with parent child attitude congruence indicated significant association of measures of family political climate with attitude congruence for all dyads except "mother/son" with "father/son" dyads showing the greatest association. Reasons for the apparent discrepancies were…

A follow-up study of the same sample of families examined size and cohesiveness of the wider kinship network. Results suggest that both social constructions and the character of the wider network play a role in shaping families' ties to their kin. (Author/RC)

Examined relationship between roles in the family and individual personality types and abusive drinking among young adults (n=674). Family roles and personality type were found to moderate effects of family-of-origin variables on abusive drinking: family role of hero acted as buffer between family of origin and young adult's drinking behaviors;…

A study of parent-absent families in which a mapping sentence is presented which distinguishes between six facets concerning the nature of the absence and two facets which relate to its effects. On the basis of these concepts comparative studies can be conducted and findings generalized. (Author)

The content of the situation is more important in the choice of courses of action than the pressures of either parents or peers, and parent peer orientations have a systematic, but minimal influence, on choice. (Author)

Reveals that families influence marriage timing indirectly, through impact on school as an alternative to marriage. Black girls more often come from families with attributes leading to early marriage, but are only half as likely to form early marriages as White girls from similar educational and family backgrounds. (Author)

Literature indicates an inverse relationship between kinship involvement and social class that is more pronounced among migrants than long-term residents of a community. Studies of an Ozark community show this is true only among outmigrants. Migration and fertility arguments suggest it is opportunity, not motivation, that produces this inverse…

As adoptions have increased, they have become less concentrated among women unable to bear children, although these women are still more likely to adopt than are fertile women. About 4 percent of American women have adopted a child by the time they are 45 years old. (Author)