Examined combined sample of national data to determine impact of parental divorce on children. Found parental divorce associated with lower educational attainment and earlier age at marriage for sons and daughters. Daughters of divorced parents had higher probability of being divorced. For sons of divorced parents, probability of ever marrying and…

Administered parental attitude questionnaire to alcoholic and nonalcoholic male veterans. Found significant differences between groups on six scales (Encouraging Verbalization, Avoiding Harsh Punishment, Encouraging Emotional Expression, Irresponsibility of Father, Inconsiderateness of Wife, and Tolerating Aggression). Found no significant…

Investigated long-term consistency and change in maternal style for talk about the past and relationships of those styles to children's memory participation. Nineteen mother-child dyads talked about shared past events at four time points. Resulting patterns indicated clear and enduring maternal narrative style differences and that these…

Adolescents are working more and longer, and more advantaged parents want their children to work. However, jobs available to youth are age segregated and declining in quality. Although student employment can develop self-discipline, responsibility, motivation, and other lifelong skills, its consequences include competing school, work, and family…

Examined attitudes of parents (n=93) who had a child with a disability. Found that parents of children with disabilities who held more positive attitudes had higher vocational and social expectations for their children. Findings suggest that professionals working with families should take special care in assessing parents' beliefs about their…

Used data from longitudinal study of 471 parents and their adult offspring to examine whether nontraditional gender roles/attitudes among parents were associated with later life outcomes of children. Found very little evidence that mother's participation in labor force, father's participation in household tasks, and parents' gender role attitudes…

Reviews book addressing parenting and socialization of boys. Describes text as "provocative" by challenging male attitudes toward parenting. Suggests that readers typically will not agree with author's contentions and that males may become uncomfortable, angry, and defensive. (CRR)

Examined relation between maternal depressive symptomatology and behavior of conduct-disordered children (n=47) toward their mothers, fathers, and siblings. Maternal symptomatology interacted with children's behavior toward all family members. Children whose mothers were distressed tended to be more compliant and less aversive toward them than…

Examines the perceptions of late adolescents regarding their caregivers' feeding styles and practices. Results, based on 546 subjects (ages 18 to 23 years), revealed two types of feeding styles: adult-controlled and cooperative. Positive correlations emerged between subjects' perceived past and future feeding practices, suggesting the generational…

Explores feelings of loneliness and fear of intimacy among college students (N=80) as a function of whether or not they were taught to trust strangers during childhood. Results show that those who were taught not to trust strangers had a greater fear of intimacy. Female participants experienced more loneliness than their male counterparts. (MKA)

The Self-Directed Scale was completed by 99 college students, and 48 of their parents provided ratings of their children's career-related abilities. Parent ratings accounted for a substantial amount of the variance in students' self-perception. The relationship between parent and child ratings was more consistent for males than for females. (SK)

Analysis of data from 1,067 9- to 12-year olds indicated that the most important determinants of children's reading and math achievement are their personal characteristics (such as gender, race, birth weight, number of siblings) and maternal cognitive ability. Parental work does not have a strong direct effect on achievement. (SK)

African American students preparing for vocational teaching careers (n=12) cited five parental influences on career choice: parents' altruistic behavior, high expectations, support of academic endeavors, early exposure to vocational subjects and to teaching, and assistance with discovery of aptitudes and interests. (SK)

Examined the impact of immigration on parent-adolescent value similarity, consistency of parents' value messages, and value transmission processes. Data from Soviet immigrant families in Israel and matched Israeli families indicated that immigrant adolescents resembled native-born adolescents more that they resembled their parents in value…

Investigated the level and pattern of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) in obese children, examining predictors of their activity. Children and their parents wore accelerometers for several days and provided demographic data. Parental activity levels significantly and independently predicted and improved the prediction of children's…