This study tracked the language preference of three French/English bilingual children, twin girls aged 12.8 and a boy 14.8, over a five year period. Their parents, who are also the authors, actively worked to raise them bilingual. The girls were enrolled in a school French immersion program throughout the study. Their brother had only one semester…

Several personal and social factors thought to influence college students' smoking were investigated by surveying a sample of college students who smoke (n=56) and do not smoke (n=160). Personal motivating factors examined were relaxation effects, image effects, competence effects, and stimulant effects. These personal reasons for smoking were…

Over the past decade, a quite sophisticated body of research and data has developed on the implications of welfare reform and devolution for children and on the development of children in low-income families more generally. However, policy initiatives and findings from recent research suggest several ways to improve and expand available data.…

Results suggested that boys identify with a culturally defined, masculine role, that girls show a similar tendency, and that neither sex imitates the same-sexed parent consistently. (Author)

Article investigated the way to christianize the child and how parents can be instrumental. (RK)

Authors present a dialogue about people liberation.'' (CB)

The need is for a massive coordinated effort to continuously educate parents, teachers, and the adult citizenry on the importance of how to positively perceive and act toward children. (Author)

Describes the development of educational programs for students from Lappland as provided by the Norwegian Ministry of Education. (RK)

The results of this investigation, employing the newly-constructed Doll Play Technique as an instrument for obtaining young children's perceptions, support the thesis that the young child's behavior is related to his perceptions of his parents' attributes. (Author)

An evaluative survey of the influences shaping student beliefs to the left, particularly during the years of student activism. (JB)

A series of four articles dealing with censorship and the book banning policy. Discusses recent cases and controversies. (JF)

Parent counseling is an effective method of helping junior high school underachievers attain their full potential, so long as the parents' attitudes towards their children remain positive. (AN)

Research measured accepted dimensions of child-rearing behavior by means of observations of both Negro mothers and fathers teaching their fifth grade sons. (Authors)

Recollection of faulty parent child interaction were found to differ among groups with varieties of illness behavior. Normal Ss decribed the most healthy parent child relationship and neurotic Ss the most disturbed. (Author)