Survey of Israeli parent-child pairs revealed portraits of moderate parents and radical children, but follow-up of family conversation while watching and discussing television news suggested harmony and unity in Israeli living rooms. Reconceptualization of the theoretical canon of political socialization analyzes the conversation as a moment of…

Uses nationally representative, longitudinal data from Great Britain to examine the fertility patterns of daughters (N=2,183) of teen mothers. Explores how early motherhood is reproduced across generations, including an earlier inherited age of menarche, poor family and educational environments, and an early ideal age of childbearing. (RJM)

Interviewed 1,200 children, ages 3-11 years, to examine their time investment in four activities that influence cognitive and social development. Results indicate that children of highly educated parents study and read more and watch TV less. Children whose mothers worked parttime watched significantly less TV than children of mothers at home…

A study of 115 female and 87 male college students in an introductory computer science course surveyed student attitudes in relation to gender, experience, and parental encouragement and determined that females were less interested in computers and less confident than males and that males were more experienced. After the one semester course,…

Achievement-related beliefs and behaviors of parents of 41 economically disadvantaged African American youth and the relations among parental factors and children's academic self-concept and achievement were studied. Significant and positive relations between parental belief and behavior measures are discussed in light of models of family…

Examined Ojibwa families for relationship between quantity and quality of father involvement in childrearing and children's academic and social performance. Found that more time spent by fathers was associated with better academics and social development for boys, while greater nurturance was associated with poorer academic performance. Found that…

Examined whether maternal gender-role ideologies and role satisfaction influence daughters' vocational interests. Participants completed a gender-role ideology scale and an identification with parents questionnaire, and reported perceptions of their parents gender-role ideologies and satisfaction. Results from 152 undergraduate students reveal…

Collected data from 84 urban, female African American middle school students to investigate neighborhood cohesion and parent and adult social support coping, singly and cooperatively, as resources for school achievement outcomes. Positive perceptions of the neighborhood directly and positively related to increased feelings of school self-efficacy…

Discusses the history and outcomes of psychoanalysis and child rearing practices in the 1950s Netherlands to present. Depicts the 20th century as a century of child rearing experts with parents blamed for all that was wrong with their child. States the dynamics of psychology has undermined society's self-supporting and self-healing capacity. (KDR)

Examined data on 900 European American children from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care to explore links between maternal employment during the child's first year and child cognitive outcomes. Found that maternal employment by the child's ninth month related to lower school readiness scores at 36 months, with more pronounced effects for certain…

Describes a conceptual framework for analyzing parent-adolescent communication about sex and birth control, and reviews the pertinent literature. Notes directions for future research. (Author/SD)

Examined links between parental knowledge and adolescent delinquent behavior for correlated rates of developmental change and reciprocal associations from age 14 to 18. Found that parent knowledge was negatively correlated with delinquent behaviors at age 14 and knowledge increases over time were negatively correlated with increases in…

An Australian study of 110 mother-infant dyads and 85 mother-toddler dyads in which the mothers were mentally ill evaluated the effectiveness of the Mother and Child Risk Observation (MACRO). Results found that MACRO offers a convenient framework for assessing risk and interpreting the impact of maternal mental illness upon children. (Author/CR)

Examined racial differences in associations between academic achievement and parent behaviors such as grade expectations, consequences for unsatisfactory grades, and praise for satisfactory grades in second, fourth, and eighth graders. Found several relationships between parents' self-reports of selected behaviors and children's academic…

Reviews research on the effectiveness of parental involvement in improving elementary school-aged children's reading skills. Studies show that parents can enhance their children's reading ability, but parents desire training in specific strategies. Two feasible programs are presented, although more research is needed on various home reading…