The authors describe a method for teaching parenting skills and helping students decide whether they want children by having them adopt a puppy or kitten for a 6-10 week period. They discuss how to use the pet adoption project in a family life education unit. (CH)

The Attitudes Toward Timing of Parenthood Education Scale is an effective questionnaire for use in parenthood education, stimulating the discussion of role choices and role changes facing young people today. (SK)

In illustrating how instruction in child development can reach everyone, the author quotes from Forum 22 on the Rights of Children, the Forum's recommendations to the President, and recommendations from the White House Conference on Children. Resource materials for child development teachers are discussed. The importance of parenthood education is…

Discusses two major areas to consider related to parenthood education for adolescents: course or curriculum design and delivery and course assessment. (JOW)

The Arkansas Cooperative Extension Service presents parenthood education for adolescents through minicourses, correspondence courses, and a newsletter series. Teenage pregnancy has declined in 11 of the 13 counties in which the program operates. (SK)

Urbana (Illinois) High School has had a class for pregnant students for several years, taken for physical education credit. This year the program was expanded to include postpartum as well as antepartum students, a unit on nutrition, and community health and social services. (MF)

Parenthood education should provide teenagers with a foundation upon which to make decisions regarding parenthood, and the knowledge and skills to perform parental responsibilities effectively. This paper addresses major components that need to be included in a teenage-parent program within the home economics curriculum. (Author)

Reviews several national parenthood education projects and research surveys and presents a five-page annotated bibliography of resource materials (both print and non-print) on parenthood education for secondary school teachers. (MF)

Describes a successful Jefferson County, Georgia, pilot program for teenage parents. The program for male and female high school students includes a counseling component and curriculum focus on prenatal-postnatal care, child care and development, and health services. (JT)

Notes the need for parent education in the secondary school and suggests an interdisciplinary effort with the home economics teacher as coordinator for a program involving education, community, and social services. (MF)

Describes the Hartford (Connecticut) Teenage Parents Program, an alternative school for pregnant girls. The program offers parenting courses and infant day care for students and teaches communication techniques, decision-making skills, child development, child health, nutrition, and concepts of discipline. Staff qualifications are also discussed.…

This special issue on home economists as leaders in the workplace and community was written by home economics teachers, a social worker, and a principal of a middle school. Articles focus on personal philosophy, curriculum content, school mission, and student learning experiences. (JOW)