Discusses various aspects of stress: benefits, adverse effects, how individuals respond to stress, management of stress, how normal development and family living produce stress in adolescents, and skills needed to cope with stress. (CT)

A longitudinal study that measures oral language at successive age-points shows a positive correlation with later educational attainment. Results indicate that familiarity with more abstract and less context-dependent uses of language, such as those associated with written text, are of greater importance. (Author/KC)

This discussion of the importance of the use of public libraries by families argues that such knowledge prepares children for effective adult life and it is the responsibility of parents to encourage their offspring to use libraries. Fifteen references are cited. (LLS)

A questionnaire was administered to measure the religious beliefs, religious practices, religiosity, and definition of religion held by members of a conservative Jewish youth group. Independent variables included Hebrew School attendance, sex, and parental practices. Only parental practices significantly accounted for any of the variance in the…

Reviews recent trends in suicide among young Blacks and discusses three inadequate causal theories (urban stress, status integration, and Black family deficit). Presents an alternative explanatory paradigm which focuses on weakened communal and family ties as a result of upward mobility. (MK)

This study was designed to extend knowledge about only children by examining a group of adults in terms of a number of important life outcomes. Data did not support the notion that only children are emotionally or personally handicapped by their lack of siblings. (Author)

Using a toy preference technique, boys and girls between 42 and 64 months were tested for sex role stereotyping. Analysis indicated the developmental nature of such stereotyping in both sexes and the finding that older siblings are much more important in the development of such stereotyping than are sexist parents. (Author/GC)

The relationship between family size and intergenerational mobility is explored. Differences between the responses of intended and unintended births to social and economic influences are considered. (Author/RLV)

This article conjectures that adults bring values, attitudes, rules, and behaviors learned in their families, though often confused with school-related problems, to their work settings. A staff development model for planned change emphasizing group processing has been developed and used successfully to rectify this situation and is described…

Reveals that families influence marriage timing indirectly, through impact on school as an alternative to marriage. Black girls more often come from families with attributes leading to early marriage, but are only half as likely to form early marriages as White girls from similar educational and family backgrounds. (Author)

Literature indicates an inverse relationship between kinship involvement and social class that is more pronounced among migrants than long-term residents of a community. Studies of an Ozark community show this is true only among outmigrants. Migration and fertility arguments suggest it is opportunity, not motivation, that produces this inverse…

This country has many programs that affect families, but it has no family policy. Present understanding of what causes changes in the family is not an adequate guide to the formation of a comprehensive family policy. The temporary alternative lies in limited, carefully weighed responses to selected problems. (Author)

As adoptions have increased, they have become less concentrated among women unable to bear children, although these women are still more likely to adopt than are fertile women. About 4 percent of American women have adopted a child by the time they are 45 years old. (Author)

All five female headteachers in secondary schools in an English county had experienced both overt discrimination and more subtle sexism. They avoided gender-stereotyped roles at work, did not have major domestic responsibilities, and had not taken extended career breaks for children. As children, they knew their parents had high educational…