This article discusses child abuse and its effects. (PD)

Concluded that maternal attitudes have a significant effect upon the motivation of the child to develop reading skills and that the lack of development of such skills may reflect an attempt by th child to resist maternal pressures for achievement. (RB)

This study investigates the relationship between aspects of parent psychopathology and child egocentrism as measured by the Piagetian Three Mountains Task. Two hypotheses were tested: (1) The overall impairment of the previously hospitalized parent will relate to child egocentric errors on a Piagetian Three Mountains Task; (2) Overall impairment…

Development consists of a series of stage-like restructurings of behavior, and continuities in exceptional behavior generally do not bridge these stages. However, when parents perceive their child as abnormal, their expectations may serve to maintain the child's abnormal behaviors across developmental stages. (JMB)

Maintains that parental values are transmitted to children in day-to-day situations, and recommends that parents make decisions about personal values, and those they want to share with their children. (CM)

It is clear that educational aspiration and parental influence have a significant bearing on the success of opportunity-program students. The phenomena and mechanisms of the variables examined here point to a clearer understanding of ways in which they seem to manifest themselves in the college experience of the student. (Author)

This study investigates the relative influences of parents, peers, and partners on the contraceptive use of college men and women. Self-administered questionnaires were completed by a nonprobability, purposive sample of 434 never-married, sexually active males and females between the ages of 17 and 22 years. (Author)

Reviews Bell and Ainsworth's 1972 study and suggests that their main conclusion, that maternal responding implied a reduction in infant crying, was not supported by their data. (JMB)

Cites evidence from the Bell-Ainsworth paper and from other studies which supports the interpretation that Gewirtz and Boyd claims was unjustified. (JMB)

Two studies, one with two- to three-month-olds and one with six- to eight-month-olds, examined infant preferences for attractive faces. A visual preference technique was used. Infants were shown slides of faces of adult women previously rated for attractiveness. When shown pairs of attractive and unattractive faces, older and younger infants…

A study compared intelligence scores of three groups of Israeli deaf children--23 with deaf parents/deaf siblings and manual communication (DpDs), 76 with hearing parents/deaf siblings, and 144 with hearing parents and siblings. The DpDs children were superior to other deaf children and comparable to hearing children on most intelligence measures.…

Studied were the responses of infants to new toys presented with either positive, negative, or neutral affective displays by mothers. Responses to stimulus toys were compared with responses to free play toys. Maternal displays influenced responses only to stimulus toys. (PCB)