This annual report contains 25 tables of detailed demographic data on household and family characteristics for March 1988. The estimates are based on information gathered in the Annual Demographic Supplement to the Current Population Survey and are appropriate for use by teachers developing lesson plans and by students working on class projects.…

Described in this document is a 1-year project that developed instructional materials to be used in public schools to educate pregnant teenagers in life management skills. During the project, an advisory committee composed of a home economics teacher, personnel from existing programs for pregnant teenagers, and young mothers who are heads of…

The contemporary women's movement, communicating largely through the written word, mistakenly ignored or failed to notice the following: (1) almost one quarter of American women (23%) had severely limited literacy skills; (2) for female heads of households, 75% of those with less than a high school diploma lived in poverty; (3) nearly 40% of…