Examines possible relationships of attitudes of secondary students toward family planning education and selected variables of sex, age, religion, occupation of mother, and occupation of father. Findings indicate that students are supportive of family planning education although females generally favored such education more than males. (Author/CT)

Fifty college women were surveyed to determine to what extent maternal employment served as a role model. Results show that parent encouragement, daughter's sex role orientation, and the mother's attitudes and beliefs were the major factors in determining career choice and commitment. (Author/JLF)

The mother's impact on her teenage daughter's sexual behavior has been conceptualized in terms of direct and indirect sources of influence. In this study, findings indicate indirect forms of sexual socialization have a greater impact on teenage sexual experience than direct forms. (Author)

Suggests that the mass media serve as socializing agents by providing direct linkage to media and contents which are essential for the development of political values, and by contributing to the structuring of social contexts in which adolescents may exercise such value orientations and reinforce ties with primary socializing agents. (JMF)

In this review, little support is found for Piaget's claim that with increasing peer group interaction adult authority becomes less legitimate to the child. It is suggested that the adult exerts increasing influence with age on children's moral judgment and, therefore, emphasis on peer-centered moral education may be misdirected. (Author/SJL)

Suggests that (1) parents and peers influence adolescents through the expression of normative standards or the modeling of behaviors; (2) adolescents respond to such pressure directly or by internalizing norms or preferences for conduct; and (3) pressures, norms, and preferences have different effects on adolescent behavior, depending on the topic…

Using a toy preference technique, boys and girls between 42 and 64 months were tested for sex role stereotyping. Analysis indicated the developmental nature of such stereotyping in both sexes and the finding that older siblings are much more important in the development of such stereotyping than are sexist parents. (Author/GC)

Multiple regression analysis was used to investigate the relationship between adolescent educational expectations and perceived maternal and paternal educational goals for offspring. The statistical effect of perceived maternal goals was 50 percent greater than that of perceived paternal goals, indicating the importance of differentiating between…

Suggests some ways in which parents can use their power to affect school policy. (MP)

To assess the assumption that IQ tests are equally valid within different social class categories, the article critically reviews major arguments offered by those who reject the assumption and presents regression analyses bearing on the construct validity of an IQ measure within different social class categories. (Author/DB)

Discusses reasons parents don't become involved with their children's schools. Also talks about advocacy organizations being developed to support parents in pursuing their rights. (Author/LD)

The article offers advice to parents and teachers of gifted children on how to respond to their giftedness in such a way as to promote the child's acceptance and proper utilization of the gift. (DLS)

Parents, classmates, and teachers are discussed as being important factors involved in the sexual stereotyping of mathematics, with teachers carrying the greatest influence. (MP)

Investigated the representational model of self and attachment figures in family drawings of 8- to 9-year-olds in a high-risk, racially mixed sample. Found that specific signs and global rating scales were related to early relationship history. Even after contemporary influences of child intelligence, stress, and emotional functioning were…