Investigated age, race, and educational patterns of marriage choice in North Carolina and Virginia during 1969-71 and 1979-81. Results support exchange theories of marriage behavior; females emphasized male economic characteristics; males emphasized female noneconomic characteristics. Major changes over 10 years were decline in level of marriage…

This study, based on a national probability sample of 15- to 19-year-old women, showed that adolescent women raised by a single parent were more likely to have nonmarital sexual intercourse than were young women from intact marriages. However, this effect was diminished by controlling for age and race, social class, and religion. (TE)

Found ability of ninth graders (N=365) to accurately appraise career-relevant capabilities of others had nothing to do with ability to be good self-appraisers. Found race and sex differences in ability to appraise others. Found scholastic ability accounted for four times as much variance in ability to appraise others as oneself. Found students…

Reviews the 1989 report, "A Common Destiny: Blacks and American Society," which examines the anticipated and unanticipated consequences of initiatives since 1940 to improve the Blacks' social position. Criticizes the report for omitting evidence concerning racial differences in intelligence and criminal activity at the individual level. (FMW)

Considers racial impact of using ability tests for employment decisions. Notes agreement that large differences exist in performance on general ability among races and that there is probable relation between general ability and job performance for most jobs; disagreement about whether racial differences in general ability are fixed and about size…

Created national estimates from 1984 Current Population Survey of number of school-age children in self-care at some time of day. Results suggest self-care most likely used by middle- to upper-income White mothers in suburban or rural areas, with no other adult in household, for older children, and for only for short time each day. (Author/NB)

Discusses care in relation to the Gilligan-Kohlberg debate, reviewing issues of gender and racial differences. Notes the "caring" professions are predominantly female. Uses examples from recent narrative and interpretive studies to address changing social contexts, caregivers and care recipients, and care's limitations and possibilities…

Examines whether African American and white students vary in their perceptions of academic dishonesty, and when cheating is justified. Also examines these perceptions according to students' level of participation in religious activities. Found general agreement that 15 behaviors were considered dishonest. Religiosity influenced perceptions of…

This annotated bibliography supplements an earlier list of books for children and teenagers in which characters are biracial or biethnic. Annotations describe 10 picture books, 7 books for teenagers, and 3 books for young adults. (SLD)

Traces the history of race-relations social science as a subfield of American intellectual history. This branch of social science has raised the issue of race to a level of primary concern on the agenda of intellectual history and is on the way to creating an ecumenical "mythistory." (SLD)

An analysis of suicide methods revealed that 78.7 percent of one state's suicides used a firearm. Whites had a higher risk of using firearms in suicide than nonwhites. Married, widowed, and divorced persons were more likely to use a firearm than those who had never married. Other findings are discussed. (RJM)

A survey completed by 535 members of leadership groups within the National Council on Measurement in Education indicates that leadership positions do generally reflect the ethnic and gender makeup of the organization. The majority of positions were held by white males from institutions of higher education and testing organizations. (SLD)

Michael Levin argues that data from the study are consistent with a black/white IQ difference that is significantly genetic. Richard Lynn maintains that adoption by middle-class, white families has no effect on intelligence. Waldman, Weinberg, and Scarr respond to these criticisms and support the original conclusions. (SLD)

African American and white men's attitudes toward gender roles, changes in gender role attitude, and maternal and life course influences on gender role attitude are examined. Findings indicate that there are racial differences in attitude, that attitudes change over time, and that individual status and life course processes influence attitudes.…

This study of 2,130 predominantly Mexican American children evaluated for possible sexual abuse found significant differences related to ethnicity, race, gender, and age. Differences in these factors were found with respect to the perpetrator-child relationship, number of perpetrators, interval from abuse to evaluation, types of abuse, and…