An investigation assessed the relative importance of parental behavior and perceived parental attitudes about smoking as factors associated with whether youths chose to smoke. Results, indicating that parental attitudes may be a more significant factor than is parental behavior, are discussed. (CJ)

Suggests that interpersonal competence in intimate and general social relationships is transmitted down generational lines. Studied a sample of college students (N=105) and their parents for evidence of lineage effects. The strongest evidence of lineage transmission of characteristics was for interpersonal competence in general social situations.…

A study was done to determine the relationship between the cognitive profiles of children and the cognitive profiles of their mothers. Results indicate that the child's cognitive behavior at age six and under is similar to the mother's. However, as the child attends school and maternal influence lessens, the child's cognitive profile begins to…

Investigated fathers' influence on the socialization of children and how it may differ from that of mothers. Parents (N=128) responded to seven scales concerning parental role responsibilities. Fathers and mothers reported high agreement as to major parental role responsibilities for a male child, less agreement occurred for female children.…

Using a two-wave panel design, examined antecedents and short-term consequences of teenage marriage, parenting, and school-leaving. Findings showed that while these three role transitions are not greatly related to social origins, academic ability, or performance, dropping-out is more highly linked than the other two. (Author)

It is estimated that 29 million American children have alcoholic parents. The author documents the unstable environment and psychological consequences suffered by these children, who are at great risk to become alcoholics themselves. (Editor)

Discusses research examining the roles played by particular resources in the home that influence children's achievement. This study adds two new dimensions to previous work on the topic: it focuses on Black children in low income, urban families and the same model is estimated for two samples of children. (Author/WD)

A purpose of this paper is to assess empirically the argument that optimism about success chances is more limited among the lower classes than among more advantaged groups. (PR)

This study sought to determine whether children of schizophrenic and manic-depressive parents would evidence more psychopathology on psychological testing than children of nonpsychotic parents and whether psychopathology in children at risk would be similar to adult psychopathology. Variables of age, sex, and race were considered. (Author/SJL)

Discusses the importance of parents' reading attitudes and habits in promoting reading in children, defends the quality of current children's books, and tells how Dorothy Butler's "Cushla and Her Books," a book about the rehabilitation of a disabled child, establishes unequivocally the need for "human links" between children…

The influences of home and school environment on teenage smoking were assessed according to sex differences, age differences, influence of adults, socioeconomic status, and coeducation v same sex grouping. (Author/DB)

This article reviews sex studies of children of cousin marriages and three studies of children of incestuous matings. It is argued that these studies, taken as a whole, provide no substantial evidence for an inbreeding depression effect within the polygenic system commonly asserted to determine IQ. (Author/DB)

Data indicate that much socialization for parenthood occurs well before the onset of childbearing. By the time a young woman is at risk of pregnancy, she has notions about the value of children and preferences for appropriate family size and sex of offspring. (Author/GC)

This article summarizes presentations made at a training institute on clinical approaches to infants and their families. Topics included assessment techniques, intervention approaches, outcome studies, and treatment modalities. Emphasis was placed on integrating emotional, cognitive, and social lines of development. (DB)