Parents on welfare as well as middle class parents took part in a training project designed to help them modify problem behaviors in their children. The guidelines developed in this project for group training and for the evaluation of outcome can be applied in various types of agencies. (Author)

Results support previous research which shows that the vocal behavior of young children can be controlled by social stimuli. (Authors/CB)

Special attention should be directed toward helping pre-service teachers to gain a knowledgeable perspective on the various types of home learning patterns and how these patterns effect child behavior styles in the classroom. (Authors)

Study not only discovered an association between the value orientations of parents and the generosity of their children but also discovered that when value orientation was held constant, there was no difference in generosity that could be attributed to the parents' discipline emphasis. (Authors)

Early learning authorities increasingly agree that parents are a child's most important teachers; the author lists parent education programs and a bibliography of teaching tools for mothers. (Editor/SP)

Psychopaths, as against nonpsychopathic delinquents, saw their fathers as having been less nurturant toward them and as having given them less praise. The mothers of psychopaths were reported to have demanded less achievement of their sons than the mothers of nonpsychopathic delinquents. (Author)

This study attempted to determine the influences on voting behavior of 18 or 19 year old college students voting for the first time and of older college students who had been eligible to vote in a previous election. Parental voting behavior was not related to the voting of the students. (JB)

Maternal estimations and aspirations are better predictors of children's attitudes than is family socioeconomic status. Moreover, a significant relationship suggests that supportive behavior on the part of mothers is encouraging to children. (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)

Tests the prevalent hypotheses that the matriarchal character of black families is associated principally with father absence from the home and that a matriarchal family structure has detrimental educational consequences for black males. Concludes that the lower educational attainment of blacks must be sought in other factors which make it…