Provides guidance to school counselors who identify children from alcoholic families and who must assist these children. Suggests that counselors design interventions that consider the rules in an alcoholic family and the role the child plays in the family. Examines family rules and describes child roles of scapegoat, hero, lost child, and mascot.…

Investigated ethnic socialization by parents of minority group adolescents and adolescents' ethnic identity and strategies for coping with stereotypes and discrimination. Interviewed 60 American-born adolescents drawn from 3 ethnic groups (Japanese, Mexican, African) and 1 parent of each adolescent. Discovered significant differences in parental…

Data from the Youth-Parent Socialization Panel Study were used to examine changes in social participation as people move from high school to parenthood. Participation in self-oriented (occupational and professional) organizations was related to socioeconomic status (education, occupation, and income), while community-oriented participation was…

Research on interactions between mothers and children with hearing loss was reviewed. Communication between hearing mothers and children who are deaf is often characterized by asynchrony, excessive maternal control, and child dependence. Mothers who are deaf use various strategies to accommodate their child's need for visual language input.…

Investigated parents' transmission of minority language in Sweden to map parental intentions during pregnancy and analyze parental language use with their children. Found most parents are willing and able to continue to speak their minority languages with their children, but it is questionable whether this is sufficient for language transmission.…

Investigates what young children see their parents read and write. Finds that both parents of Headstart children and parents of private school preschoolers reported reading and writing a wide variety of materials, although the types of literacy activities were different. (SR)

College students (n=175) reported the parenting style of their mother and father and completed a scale assessing their own level of codependency. Parenting style of the father (uninvolved, permissive, authoritarian, or democratic) was related to offspring codependency. Both sons and daughters of authoritarian fathers had higher levels of…

Profiles Archer Poor, a self-taught amateur archaeologist and camp manager in rural Maine. Describes his archeological work on Indian artifacts and its significance to professional scientists. Describes his discovery-learning approach to raising children. Emphasizes importance of patience, persistence, parent influence, and library research in…

Examined salary and work hour expectations of business students and influence of parents on development of expectations. Findings from 260 business students showed that fathers had more influence than mothers on both sons' and daughters' salary and work hour expectations. Males expected to earn higher salaries and thought it was reasonable to work…

This study, involving 15 deaf parents, their hearing children, and the children's hearing grandparents, examined the content validity of the Parental Strengths and Needs Inventory for evaluating the child-rearing performance of deaf adults. The inventory was found to be inadequate for assessing the strengths and needs of deaf parents. (Author/JDD)

A survey determined the extent to which selected pediatric dental behavior management techniques are taught both didactically and clinically in 46 predoctoral and 45 postdoctoral programs. Results and trends are reported within the four categories of sedation, restraint, parental presence, and communications behavior management. (GLR)

Observed neglecting and nonneglecting mothers and their one- to three-year-old children during unstructured play interaction in their homes. Neglecting mothers were less positive in their responsiveness to their children and less competent in the developmental appropriateness of their play interactions than nonneglecting mothers. (MM)

The children of the Southeast Asian boat people excel in the U.S. school system. A review of the factors underlying this achievement suggests that the U.S. educational crisis is more social than academic. (KR)

This study examined the effect of parental attitudes and child's age on 60 children's attitudes toward children with physical disabilities. Results showed that children aged 11-12 demonstrated more positive attitudes than children aged 5-6. Mothers' attitudes appeared to have a differential impact on their children's attitudes depending on the…

Used longitudinal data from 76 adolescent girls and their parents to investigate effects of parental warmth and supportiveness on adolescents' depressed affect, attitudes about sexuality, peer influence, and sexual experience. Girls with more emotionally distant parents were more likely to manifest symptoms of depression. Depressed affect was…