Reviews research dealing with the causes of adolescent runaway behavior and the negative physical and psychological consequences of being away from home prematurely. Gender differences are also noted. Concludes that running away must be viewed as both an adolescent and a family problem. (Author/JAC)

Books which show children and adolescents coping with current social and family problems are discussed. The books deal with the changing structure of families, divorce, children's loneliness, urban problems, death, and other issues. (PP)

Aspects of family law changed by the impact of constitutional doctrines are reviewed; included is discussion of marriage, divorce, child custody, parent/child relationships, and abortion and contraception. (MP)

Discussed the utility of a measure of aggression using the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. Although child abusers significantly differed from a distressed and socioeconomic status-matched group on this scale, a discriminative analysis on the scale failed to adequately differentiate the groups. (Author)

Describes techniques of utilization and indirect suggestion in multiple-family group therapy as a component of an alcoholism treatment program. Techniques include: unconscious conditioning, therapeutic binds, indirect suggestion, and the utilization approach. Describes how a set of specific goals can be achieved using these techniques. (Author/KMF)

Studied (N=212) women age 50 or over. Most mothers of divorced children indicated that the event had been negative -- traumatic, painful, and sad -- for them. The emotional effects of divorce on the mothers suggest that supportive alternatives should be made available for parents of the divorcing couple. (Author)

Discusses legal and psychological issues affecting newly married couples and their children by former marriages. Topics include discipline, premarital contracts, legal rights, personal relationships, and complications posed for the new marriage by settlements agreed to in the divorce. (DB)

Home economists must discuss basic survival needs and isolate the unique contribution of home economics to the solution of pervasive social and economic problems. People need an adequate diet, adequate housing and clothing, a healthy environment, and good medical care. Home economics focuses on the family and must concentrate on the problems,…

Compares the ways in which behavioral and family systems theories conceptualize family problems and explains maintenance and change processes within the family system. Systems and behavioral theories share functional views of problem behaviors and interactive sequences. Discusses areas of potential integration of the two perspectives. (Author)

Retrospective analysis indicated hysterical conversion reactions are uncommon prior to age five, uncommon in in-patient psychiatric practice, and are more common among girls than among boys. The frequency of previous psychiatric difficulties in both the child and his/her family suggests that symptom formation is but one component in ongoing…

Suggests that money spent to police child abuse among low-income families should be used to assist families in need of relief before abuse occurs and to monitor institutions and law enforcement agencies that purport to protect children from their abusive parents. (Author/GC)

Understanding and treatment of child abuse must not rest solely on medical intervention strategies concerned primarily with changing abusive parents. The fact that social and environmental conditions influence human behavior should not be overlooked. Family treatment in child abuse cases offers a viable alternative to the medical model of…

Describes a short-term behaviorally-oriented treatment program for parent-adolescent conflict designed to teach family members effective skills for seeking independence, methods of communicating without antagonizing and alienating, methods for resolving specific issues, ways of identifying and restructuring inappropriate attitudes, and methods for…

Argues that critics of the family are vague about what they plan to put in its place beyond "liberation" and "openness." Holds that without the bourgeois family and the virtues it nourishes, democratic self-government does not seem possible. (Author/GC)

This paper presents the data from a national survey of family violence and suggests that the roots of family violence lie in the organization of the family and in implicit cultural norms tolerating or approving violence as a means for social control. (Author/EB)