To achieve the overall goals and purposes of education is closely related to the living environments of students. Different family backgrounds will put children into a situation where they face unfair competition. According to a survey conducted in China's Urumqi and Changchun about parents' awareness of educating their children, this paper will…

Background: Although parental divorce is associated with increased substance use and internalizing problems, experiencing the separation of one's parents may not cause these outcomes. The relations may be due to genetic or environmental selection factors, characteristics that lead to both marital separation and offspring functioning. Method: We…

Sixteen 1st-generation Asian Indian mothers and fathers were interviewed about the influence of immigration on retention of their own ethnic identity and their ability to promote a sense of ethnic identity in their 2nd-generation children. Data were analyzed with the consensual qualitative research methodology (C. E. Hill et al., 2005) and…

Unlike much previous research on sibling relationships, which emphasizes the congruence across various types of family experiences, the research described in this article explored between-family differences in patterns of experiences within families. The work is built upon Bronfenbrenner's ecological model and Magnusson's interactional…

Market data in 34 different markets around the country provided the background for a comparison of newspaper subscribers and nonsubscribers. Essentially the market reports provided information on what kinds of people subscribe to a newspaper and why. Among the findings are the following: (1) subscribers tend to be older, to have higher incomes,…

This investigation sought to replicate a previous study (Greendorfer and Lewko, 1978) on children's socialization into sport. It was hypothesized that family members, specifically fathers, were the most significant predictors of male and female sport participation, followed by the peer group and teachers, respectively. A Sport Interest Inventory…

This paper addresses the theory and data from differing disciplines regarding the generic aspects of nonnormative crises (those unrelated to ontogeny or stage of the family life cycle) in order to increase understanding of the underlying processes involved. The first part of the paper reviews the literature on the study of family crises,…

Discussed day care for children and the quality of such care. (RK)

THE 68 ENTRIES, WITH PUBLICATION DATES FROM 1935 THROUGHT 1965, ARE ARRANGED ALPHABETICALLY BY AUTHOR AND ANNOTATED TO HIGHLIGHT THE FINDINGS ON FAMILY AND OCCUPATIONAL CHOICE EVEN THOUGH THESE MAY NOT HAVE BEEN THE MAJOR FINDINGS OF A GIVEN STUDY. GENERAL STUDIES OF ASPIRATION AND ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION, SPECIFIC OCCUPATIONAL CHOICE…

A review of research on characteristics of junior college students permits certain generalizations. Since present tests show that they score lower academically than 4-year college students (although individuals may do equally well), their special abilities and aptitudes need further study. Though they tend to come from families of low…

The Home and School Institute has developed three plans to train teachers and administrators to work more effectively with parents and the community. The basic goals of these programs are a) to improve the skills and attitudes of participants in working with parents and the community, b) to provide parent reinforcement of children's learning, c)…

Authors Heath and McLaughlin respond to the previous critique by Dorothy Rich pointing out that any disagreement between Rich and themselves has more to do with interpretation than intent. (MD)

Maintains that priorities generated by forces which affect children--technology, society, home and family, school, economic resources--need to be assessed. Assessment should focus on how priorities for children are established; the intensity of priorities; how priorities might be appropriately applied; and how priorities can be effectively…