Reviews recent trends in suicide among young Blacks and discusses three inadequate causal theories (urban stress, status integration, and Black family deficit). Presents an alternative explanatory paradigm which focuses on weakened communal and family ties as a result of upward mobility. (MK)

This study was designed to extend knowledge about only children by examining a group of adults in terms of a number of important life outcomes. Data did not support the notion that only children are emotionally or personally handicapped by their lack of siblings. (Author)

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)

The relationship between family size and intergenerational mobility is explored. Differences between the responses of intended and unintended births to social and economic influences are considered. (Author/RLV)

This article conjectures that adults bring values, attitudes, rules, and behaviors learned in their families, though often confused with school-related problems, to their work settings. A staff development model for planned change emphasizing group processing has been developed and used successfully to rectify this situation and is described…

Reveals that families influence marriage timing indirectly, through impact on school as an alternative to marriage. Black girls more often come from families with attributes leading to early marriage, but are only half as likely to form early marriages as White girls from similar educational and family backgrounds. (Author)

Literature indicates an inverse relationship between kinship involvement and social class that is more pronounced among migrants than long-term residents of a community. Studies of an Ozark community show this is true only among outmigrants. Migration and fertility arguments suggest it is opportunity, not motivation, that produces this inverse…

This country has many programs that affect families, but it has no family policy. Present understanding of what causes changes in the family is not an adequate guide to the formation of a comprehensive family policy. The temporary alternative lies in limited, carefully weighed responses to selected problems. (Author)

As adoptions have increased, they have become less concentrated among women unable to bear children, although these women are still more likely to adopt than are fertile women. About 4 percent of American women have adopted a child by the time they are 45 years old. (Author)

All five female headteachers in secondary schools in an English county had experienced both overt discrimination and more subtle sexism. They avoided gender-stereotyped roles at work, did not have major domestic responsibilities, and had not taken extended career breaks for children. As children, they knew their parents had high educational…

Examines family-based variables as predictors of adolescent substance use. Overall, this study supported prior research, indicating certain family variables as predictors of adolescent substance use. Sibling marijuana use, family involvement, and religious affiliation were predictors of adolescent tobacco use. Family involvement, sibling tobacco…

Uses the family social relations model (SRM) to test for the personal relationship qualities of influence and persuasion in the family decision-making context of buying a new car. Uncovers patterns in the relationship qualities of influence and persuasion across three decisions families make when buying a new car (i.e., how much to spend, car…

Presents a revised theory of what eminence is, its relation to productivity, its measurement, and the markers for it. The Bronte family is used for illustration. Concludes that persons who are truly eminent (who create original and significant work) and persons who are simply high achievers, tend to come from different families entirely and that…

Structural equation modeling of data from 4,034 Canadian adolescents yielded a factor composed of academic achievement, extracurricular reading, attitudes toward school and homework, and parental educational expectations that predicted 76% of variance in educational aspirations. Positive family climate and parental involvement fostered a positive…