The evidence suggests that adolescents have only slightly more responsibility for household chores when the mother is employed, and that their degree of participation in social activities does not differ consistently from respondents whose mothers are not employed. (Author)

Interviews conducted with adolescents from 12 to 17 years old and their parents revealed adolescent drinking can be explained by parental models of drinking behavior. Parental socialization factors, particularly support and to a lesser degree control, were also shown to have an effect on the development of adolescent drinking behaviors.…

Data from time diaries kept by parents in two-parent, two-child families in four states in 1977 and 1978 were used to examine time shared by parents and children, as well as parent solitary times, in a number of household activities. Analysis focused on how the mother's employment time affects shared parent-child time and whether the time was sex…

Using longitudinal data, examined the impact of parental marital quality, divorce, and remarriage on the exchange of assistance between parents and offspring. Found that family members were able to adapt to alterations in family structure in a way that minimized the effects of changes by maintaining patterns of needed support. (RJM)

Examined adult children's housework as reported by both parents and adult children in intergenerational households. Adult children reported doing substantial amounts of weekly housework, with parents reporting lower amounts, particularly for sons and for younger adult children. Adult children did more housework in one-parent than in two-parent…

Related cognitions (ambiguity of stepfather role, optimistic perspective on stepfamilies, and myths about stepfamilies) to satisfaction with (step)parent-child relationships and family/marital/personal life in 27 mother/stepfather pairs. Compared to stepfathers, mothers had more optimistic perspective on stepfamilies, were less likely to endorse…

The authors's concern is the delineation of family developmental processes from the time the children leave home to the time of their parents old age and also the investigation of qualitative aspects of kinship interaction and as different kinds of kinship ties, obligation, value consensus, generational transmission and conflict, and adult…

Discusses discriminative parental solicitude within the framework of evolutionary biology. Suggestions of how parents should behave are based on what characteristics of parent behavior might be expected as a product of evolution by natural selection. (Author/JAC)

Explored how timing of transition to parenthood is associated with later divisions of domestic labor in representative sample of U.S. parents. Time availability and wife's ideology were consistent predictors of husband's sharing more routine housework in early and delayed households. Resource/exchange models were supported for early-birth couples…

Presents a general discussion of the conceptual and operational limitations found within the existing efforts to assess constructs central to the study of parents. The discussion is followed by a review and critique of measures designed to assess concepts central to research on parents. Includes recommendations to improve the quality of measures.…

In 1963, 1976, and 1982, identical questionnaires were administered to comparable samples of teenagers (570 total) to investigate whose advice they seek regarding 18 social issues. Data formed a curvilinear pattern over time, reflecting the decline of parent orientation between the '60s and '70s and its partial recovery during the '80s.…

Examined the relationship between parental behavior as reported by parents, children's perceptions of parental behavior, and the effects of each on various aspects of children's self-evaluations. Results found little correspondence between parents' reports of their behavior and children's perceptions of this behavior. Findings support the symbolic…

Explored the relationship between two types of childhood family aggression and severe marital aggression in the next generation of adults (N=2,143). Results indicated that observing hitting between one's parents is more strongly related to involvement in severe marital aggression than is being hit as a teenager by one's parent. (LLL)

The meaning of familial responsibility to older members was investigated by interviewing two or three generations in families (N=15 families) providing assistance to older family members in a noninstitutional setting. Shared responsibility and responsibility to other family members are found to be important. A broader conceptualization of filial…

Examined the impact of parental conflict during and after divorce, change in parent-child relations, and parent's remarriage on courtship relations in college students (N=365). Results showed that divorce increases courtship activity, and satisfaction is eroded only if there is postdivorce conflict and a decline in parent-child relations. (LLL)