Researchers in both Japan and in the United States have documented that bullying is a common and potentially damaging form of violence among children. The authors' review highlights distinct cross-cultural patterns of personal, family, peer, and school characteristics that predict gender differences in bullying and victimization. Cross-cultural…

Jane Waldfogel, Terry-Ann Craigie, and Jeanne Brooks-Gunn review recent studies that use data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) to examine why children who grow up in single-mother and cohabiting families fare worse than children born into married-couple households. They also present findings from their own new research.…

Agoraphobia is an increasingly common, often chronically incapacitating anxiety disorder. Both behavior therapy and pharmacotherapy can be effective in reducing the intensity of agoraphobic symptoms. There are promising new developments, however, from a family systems perspective. Researchers are finding that an agoraphobic's marriage and family…

Paper explores the degree to which the socialization of core values is a function of family as opposed to generational influences. Two value dimensions that characterize the range of choices from which respondents made value judgments are identified. (Author/AM)

Graduate social work students reported positive attitude changes toward the mentally retarded after attending a developmental disabilities course and participating in a day of interaction with the family of a retarded person. (CL)

Some teenagers need to attend schools that do far more, in the way of providing a social-psychological home, than schools do now. These schools must take up where the family has left off. (Author/IRT)

Many people who die in the United States are transported across state boundaries for burial. Analysis of data from death certificates in 1983 demonstrated 17.1 percent of Arizonans who died were shipped out of state, predominantly back to their state of birth or to their most recent previous residence. (Author/KS)

This paper examines Aristotle's view of the family as providing indispensible motivations for the moral education of the young, the inadequacy of the family in providing moral education, and the need for laws to protect the community and to educate the community regarding public affairs. (MT)

An attempt is made to explain something of the origin of violence. The author distinguishes between private and collective violence and discusses matrices in which violence originates. (Editor)

Argues that because research finds that families have greater influence on student achievement than schools, proposes that families enter into metaphorical contracts to enhance the education of their children. Makes specific suggests for the terms of the contract. (PKP)

Childhood obesity continues to be one of the most refractory and resistant problems encountered by children. This article provides a comprehensive review of the literature and addresses the presumed influence of family members in relation to childhood obesity. Directions for future family counseling research into childhood obesity are also…

Evaluated parents' data in three studies of families with delinquent adolescent. Provided families with different forms of positive versus negative interactional (attributional) context. Taken together, data provide some support for reattribution techniques such as relabeling. Data question ease with which such techniques can be successful.…

Reviews previous theoretical approaches to understanding adolescent suicide (Durkheim's sociological theory of suicide, social learning theory, psychological theory, and family systems theory), and proposes utilization of human ecological theory. Examines factors associated with adolescent suicide at organism (individual), microsystem, mesosystem,…

The influence of growing up in a welfare home on new mothers' chances of employment is investigated. Data are analyzed using logit and ordinary least-squares equations. Attitudes toward work and welfare are distinguished. Findings do not support a relationship between new mothers' employment and an intergenerationally transmitted welfare culture.…

Investigated the relationship between birth order, family size, and intelligence quotient (IQ), evaluating sibling data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and comparing results with those from other studies using within-family data. Results indicated that although low IQ parents were making large families, large families were not…