This book offers guidance on dealing with the problem of truancy and non-attendance. It provides examples of the latest ways that schools, teachers, education welfare officers, and local education authorities in the United Kingdom have worked to overcome their attendance problems, identifying 120 short-term solutions and several long-term…

This book presents strategies that African American parents have used to pass on a legacy of excellence to their daughters, focusing on how and why these young African American women have succeeded. Information comes from interviews with and surveys of young women college students and college graduates and their parents. The book includes seven…

This study investigated variations in adolescents' relationships with mothers and fathers. Two questions guided the study: (1) Are differences in the features of adolescents relationships with parents related to adolescents grade, adolescents gender, or parents gender?; and (2) Are differences in parents influence related to adolescents grade,…

It is well documented that children of middle-class parents generally do better at school than their working-class peers and despite increases in school retention rates in Australia, this remains the case. Social reproduction theories are often used to describe this phenomenon. Social reproduction theory assumes that a family's class position is…

This book concentrates on ways in which families influence their children's careers, especially on the barriers families may wittingly or unwittingly construct on the children's path toward satisfying work lives. The book is divided into five parts, each of which builds upon the previous ones. The chapters in Part One define what hand-me-down…

While parenting, attachment, individuation, and identity theories suggest relationships between parent-adolescent relationships, parenting behaviors, and adolescent self-evaluations, these theories differ in whether parent-adolescent relationship quality or parenting behaviors are more directly linked to adolescent self-evaluations. For this…

This guide presents suggestions for talking about alcohol for parents and guardians of young people ages 10 to 14. The guide asserts that the best way to influence your child to avoid drinking is to have a strong, trusting relationship with him or her. Research shows that teens are much more likely to delay drinking when they feel they have a…

This report uses the 1979-1996 National Household Surveys on Drug Abuse to investigate the role of parents, especially members of the baby boom generation, on the marijuana use of children. The association of marijuana use between parents and children, the differences among parental birth cohorts, and the determinants of child marijuana use are…

Individuation is the process whereby adolescents gradually gain autonomy from their parents while maintaining emotional relatedness, accompanied by a transformation of the parent-child relationship. In everyday parent-child interactions, higher levels of individuation are displayed by characteristic styles of verbal exchanges, such as flexible…

This book reports on a nine-year longitudinal study of the postsecondary educational decision-making process among a sample of high school students in Indiana. The study surveyed large numbers of students and also conducted in-depth interviews with a small number of students and parents. The book is organized into four parts, each with two…

Deals with some of the important relations between mother and environmental factors in their effects on an infant somatic and behavioral development. (Author/JM)

Reports an analytical study of the world social situation of youth, describing the needs and aspirations of youth and the most effective methods of meeting those needs; data were obtained from 58 adults and 1,738 young people between the ages of 14 and 25 in 15 countries, chosen according to geographical distribution. (Author/JM)

Presents and tests a theory which specifies the conditions under which adolescents shift their valuations between three sets of reference sources--fathers, mothers, and peers; the thesis incorporates components from four interpretations of parent--adolescent cleavage, summarily entitle Push, Pull, Selective Attachment, and Drift. (Author/JM)

Students and their parents completed a questionnaire dealing with attitudes toward five topics: student unrest, drugs, marriage, work, and sexual behavior. A gap does exist in three of the areas: student unrest, drugs, and sexual behavior. (Author)

In this study, the relevance of striving situations to intrinsic and extrinsic motivation was manipulated by varying the degree of involvement in the child's performance displayed by the experimenter. (Authors)