In today's moral environment, teaching the young high moral standards requires cooperation between schools and families. This article describes four successful approaches: developing a school-community consensus about values, forming parent support groups, creating multifaceted parent participation opportunities, and writing parallel curricula for…

Refers to the child-rearing practices and to the situation of family therapy in Greece. Maintains many children in Greece live in an overprotective, overcontrolling and overdemanding environment, which could promote emotional problems. Comparison of the efficacy of family therapy to that of individual therapy in a child guidance clinic suggests…

The confluence model shows the influence of family on intellectual growth. The decline of SAT scores is related to changing family patterns. Intellectual growth is lower for children with many siblings. The increase in average family size for the cohorts taking SATs between 1963 and 1980 caused scores to decline. (Author/VM)

Reviews research on importance of the family environment in child development. Develops the following policy-oriented conclusions: (1) a fiscal policy that emphasizes early childhood in the family context would result in cost savings; (2) collaboration between the family and education specialists is necessary; and (3) provisions to bring parents…

Examined whether, how, and to what extent young children's (N= 24) perceptions of themselves and their families related to their career development, career awareness, and work and family aspirations. Results suggest that young children cannot be clearly differentiated between those who are family-oriented and those who are career-oriented. (ABL)

The article attempts to explain why geography seems to attract more boys than girls. Attention is given to how gender-related differences in spatial behavior around the home influence the development of mapping abilities. Recommendations are suggested in terms of how teachers need to be more aware of the influence of gender upon performance levels…

This study compared subjects from right-handed families and nonright-handed families in their ability to solve a mental-rotation task when instructed to use one of two different spatial strategies. Results suggested familial nonright-handers may be stronger in transformation of mental images, but weaker in reorientation in relation to left-right…

Seven well-known people describe their early experiences with books and reading and tell how they became avid readers. (MD)

Two hundred and fourteen adult basic education students in Connecticut were interviewed to determine the range and types of personal and institutional supports and countersupports available to students and to discover how the presence or absence of such supports enhanced or detracted from their participation in basic education classes. (CT)

Explored origins of individual differences in infant shyness by studying its relationship to parental shyness, sociability, and introversion-extraversion. Full adoption design examined role of both genetic and family environmental influences as possible etiological factors in development of infant shyness. Results indicate genetic influences and…

Investigated the influence of family issues and life events on the success of 322 female reentry students. Results demonstrated that negative life events and family social support have significant main and interactive effects on depression. Implications for counseling and research are discussed. (JAC)

Videotaped observations of the free-play interaction of mothers and (1) 12 physically handicapped, (2) 14 premature, and (3) 9 healthy 2-year-olds were evaluated. Results support clinical reports of maternal withdrawal from disabled young children. (Author/RH)

Discusses various elements of past and future education: the phenomenon of American schooling oscillating between quality and equality, the boundary between schooling and education, out-of-school education, the power of advertising and the media, family influence, government influence, and the responsibility of adults toward youth. (CT)

A long-term study of 456 inner-city males showed that, by age 47, the children of chronically dependent and multiproblem families were almost indistinguishable from the children of more stable families in terms of mean income, years of employment, criminality, and mental health. (CMG)

Family and child correlates of nutrition knowledge and dietary quality were examined using fifth- and seventh-grade students. Results indicate higher scores on nutrition knowledge from older, more intelligent, and White subjects. Higher scores on a measure of dietary quality were achieved from younger, more intelligent subjects with working…