Latest research on how children are socialized to war. Over 2,677 children in grades three to eight in New York, New Jersey, and Maryland, were interviewed. Excerpted from the book Children and War'' by Howard Tolley, Jr. (DS)

The variables of age, father's education, rural upbringing, religion and region in which one was raised are related to the complexity of the child-rearing environment. Data suggests an increase in modern man's intellectual flexibility is a reflection of the complex conditions characterizing the modern world. (JB)

A home environment that gives a free reign and a ready response to the explorations of the child is one that fosters creative development. Likewise, the use of discovery learning at school and in job training encourages creativity. (CK)

This paper contains 50 reasons" used to explain increasing drug abuse by youth, grouped into 10 categories: criminal elements, minorities, youth, adults, homes, schools, churches, corporate system, political system, and society. The interplay of reasons is extremely complicated; hence educational or remedial programs built upon simplistic cause…

The findings reported here offer some support to the conceptualization of education as an integrated lifelong process with adult education forming one aspect of that process. Factors influencing participation are discussed, with importance given to educational background, both of the individual and of his family, as an influence. (Author/JB)

Stressful problems of adolescence are related to the retarded and parent-educator collaboration suggested in trying a merit badge system to foster the learning of personal, social, and economic skills by retarded youth. (KW)

The data from this study makes clear that it is not the fact of broken homes per se that is related to self derogation but rather the particular characteristics of the broken home situation. Prediction of self derogation is also contingent upon such subject characteristics as race, sex and social class. (Author/CG)