Do adults' perceptions of their mothers' and fathers' parenting practices in childhood vary by their mothers' employment status? Among adults in the Survey of Midlife Development in United States who lived with 2 biological parents until the age of 16 years (N = 2,246), those who had employed mothers during most or all of their childhood reported…

A study investigated whether routine, everyday communication in parent-child relationships affects relationship satisfaction as well as how conflict might fit into the relational picture. Fifty-two mothers (38 married and 14 single) with sons 5-14 years of age completed the Iowa Communication Record (ICR) to provide information about routine…

Parents of firstborn male and female infants completed questionnaires concerning their perceptions of their infants. One question focused on how important it was for their children to become either very masculine or very feminine. It was predicted that the less parents stressed the importance of gender appropriateness, the less they would view…

Although it has been suggested that contact with children is important for the satisfaction of the economic, emotional, and service needs of older parents, social gerontology research provides little direct evidence that childless elders or elders with few living children are less satisfied than others. To examine the effects of family size,…

Information on male linkage is usually generalized from studies of female linkage and the saliency of the father-son tie in later life is unclear. The importance of the father-son tie was examined in 56 men aged 65 and older through a comparative analysis designed to compare the levels of association and helping between fathers and sons to those…

Examines the relations of Type A scores of parents to Type A scores of their children. Parent-child correlations were found for father-son pairs. (PCB)

Analyzes 1973 Occupational Changes in a Generation Survey data to show that the effects of father's schooling and sibship size on sons' schooling are mainly additive and invariant over cohorts. Apparent interactions between father's schooling and sibship size result primarily from differences in mean educational attainment among sibship size…

This study used data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) to assess the extent to which economic status is transmitted from one generation to the next, focusing on whether the effect of parental income on sons' family income and wages changed for cohorts between 1949 and 1965. The PSID is a longitudinal data set initiated with a core…

Reviews findings of study on mortality effects of parental bereavement. Describes negative findings of study in which mortality risk of parents who lost son in war or accident was compared with mortality pattern of control group, calling findings surprising in view of evidence produced by studies on conjugal bereavement. Sees need for additional…

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…

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)

Investigates a wide range of communicative hand/arm gestures of four-year-old males interacting with their mothers. One trained observer coded videotaped behavior for the incidence of "deictic,""pantomimic," and "semantic-modifying and relational" hand or arm gestures. Results are viewed as demonstrating the link…

A Kansas survey of 174 mothers of third graders focused on how much home economics the mothers had taken, how competent they felt, and how important they believed each area was for their daughters and sons. (SK)

A structural model of intergenerational occupational mobility describes the factors governing access to occupational roles. The model links educational attainment to differences between fathers' and sons' occupations. (AM)

Effects of the ethnicity of observers on Chicano mothers and sons were evaluated using four female observers, two Anglos and two Chicanas. Verbal interaction, child prosocial and undesirable behaviors, and use of Spanish were recorded in the homes of ten Chicano mother-son pairs. Effects of observer ethnicity were negligible. (Author/NQ)