This article examines the role parents play in the implementation of change at the school or district level. It also offers guidelines for the school administrator who wishes to foster parents' constructive rather than destructive participation. (RC)

This paper suggests that the mother's occupation as well as the father's occupation affect a daughter's occupational destination. (Author/EB)

University of Texas at Austin assessed the career interest patterns of 3,921 incoming students during the 1977 summer orientation program. Results indicated that careers in the business area were most frequently listed as tentative career choices. Parents were cited most frequently as the major influence on students' career decisions. (Author)

A parent-monitored program of oral hygiene, stressing regular brushing and flossing, resulted in statistically significant improvement in palque and gingivitis ratings. (MJB)

This study investigated the effects of parental models plus nondifferential praise, and expansions plus nondifferential praise on 2-year-old children's spontaneous use of color and size adjective-noun combinations. (Author/SB)

The relationship between offspring adjustment and parental behavior was examined in male and female college students. Data indicate that acceptance vs. rejection and psychological autonomy vs. control are important dimensions of parental behavior. (GO)

In a twin study using direct behavioral observation of parent-child interaction, as well as ratings and experimental measures, the question of parents' differential treatment of monozygotic and dizygotic twins was investigated. (Author/SB)

Assessed children of patients with anxiety disorders using self-report inventories and a semistructured interview schedule. They were more anxious and fearful, reported more school difficulties and worries about family members and themselves, had more somatic complaints, spent more time engaged in solitary activities than children in two normal…

Examined family and religious variables that affect transmission of religious values from parents to early adolescent sons. Responses from 68 Protestant mother-father-son triads showed that mothers mostly influenced sons' practical application of religion, while fathers influenced sons' church attendance. Mothers and fathers functioned differently…

This study determines that high self-acceptance by adoptive parents influences high parental acceptance of adopted children. (BB)

Focuses on extent to which parents influence their children toward the development of nonstereotyped behaviors. Explores theories of and empirical research on sex-role and life-span development. Distinguishes between short-term and long-term effects of nonsexist parental behavior. Although androgynous parents may not produce androgynous children,…

Examines the influence of parental status characteristics on status aspirations of young adults (N=738) who completed questionnaires. Results showed that objective status characteristics are less important than the youths' own subjective definitions of status of parents and that mothers' characteristics are more important than those of fathers.…

Presents data from a longitudinal study, based on a sample of 632 Aberdeen school children (ages 11-16), on the development of peer and parental influences during adolescence. Reports that parental influence substantially diminished, but it was not replaced by peer influence: deference to parents remained strong over time. (KH)

Establishes a rationale for parents' and teachers' intervention in children's television viewing. Provides strategies for both home and school. (BJD)

A study of 119 middle-class father-son pairs revealed that fathers' beliefs and expectations (which were found to be unexpectedly traditional in nature) clearly influenced their sons'. (KH)