Discusses family life in China, which has undergone several dramatic changes including raising of the legal marriage age, less restrictions on divorce, and official promotion of family planning. Because these policies and practices conflict with Chinese traditions, inevitable problems have arisen. (JAC)

Therapists engaged in the use of family therapy as a treatment method are consistently faced with a rather intense resistance on the part of the family to being treated as a unit. The author's own experience both in doing and supervising family therapy has necessitated some focusing on this perplexing problem. (Author)

The author, famous in the field of family counseling, relates his experiences and subsequent inferences in the field of family life. (RWP)

The study assesses the relationships between feelings of alienation and family problems associated with moving. The study concludes that geographic mobility and family problems associated with moving are more likely to be found in the Army family in which the wife-mother feels alienated from society and the Army community. (Author)

Author presented the case against the institution of a no-fault divorce law. (RK)

Examines the role extension programs can play in providing much-needed information and counseling to families in stress. (AN)

In an interview, a marriage counselor answers questions concerning sex in marriage. He concludes that sex alone is too narrow a base for a marriage to rest upon and for a successful marriage, there is a need for a deeper basis of companionship. (Author/CG)

After personal involvement as a group leader with alcoholics under treatment and their families, the author stresses the need for this type of counseling to educate family on alcoholism and to help dispel their prejudices. (Author/CJ)

The Child Sexual Abuse Treatment Program (CSATP) of Santa Clara, California, uses professionals from the community, volunteers, and self-help groups of parents and children to provide treatment with a humanistic attitude. A case study illustrates CSATP treatment for father-daughter incest. Effects of father, mother, daughter, and family are…

Significant differences were found between parents and professionals on the impact of severely handicapped children on their families. Professionals overestimated the child's negative impact on family relationship as well as community rejection and lack of support. They underestimated parents' ability to use appropriate teaching and behavior…

Describes the formation, activities, and outcomes of a therapeutic group for 7- to 14-year-old siblings of handicapped children attending the Bronx Center of United Cerebral Palsy of New York City. The group met for eight weekly sessions during summer vacation from school. Limitations and positive aspects of the intervention are pointed out.…

Comments on a review of literature on families of retarded children focusing on the neglected role of the father and criticizes the authors, Price-Bonham and Addison, for recurring ambiguity regarding the level of retardation and bias toward pathology in the family of the retarded child. Comments by Sharon Price-Bonham follow. (Author/BEF)

The author's principal concerns are (1) the impact of detention on youth, family, and community; (2) the elements of sound intake processes; and (3) the roles of detention personnel and counselors or probation officers following admission, and how these roles might be deployed to insure minimal social losses to detained juveniles. (Author/DB)

Five siblings of autistic children relate some of their own experiences and provide insight on how this handicap manifests itself throughout the family's environment. A psychiatrist experienced with autistic children and their families comments on the siblings' stories. (SBH)

This study examined stress-support in 42 families of 3- to 18-year-old children with Prader-Willi Syndrome. While children's age, intelligence quotient, and degree of obesity were not related to familial stress, families experienced greater stress when children showed more behavior problems overall, more externalizing and internalizing problems,…