Parental control, a focus in much of the parenting research over the past 50 years, involves pushes or pressures for children to think, feel, or behave in specific ways. Based on the view that when parents communicate in controlling ways, they undermine their children's ability to initiate their own actions and induce them to behave because of…

Parent involvement in their children's education has been well established as an important component of academic success. To explore this phenomenon, parents were invited into the classroom to participate in a regular lesson so as to determine if such participation would enhance their perception of education and subsequently increase students'…

The hypotheses of the current study attempt to expand and refine what is currently known about the relationship between family types and actual behavioral adjustment as reported by older adolescents. High school seniors (N=2250 in 14 high schools in the middle South region) indicated their level of personal participation in a variety of problem…

This review examines co-parenting, the more or less equal sharing of parenting responsibilities by mothers and fathers. Because co-parenting remains an anomaly, much of the review addresses men's levels and forms of parenting involvement. Also investigated are the factors contributing to their participation and nonparticipation. Noting that…

This review discusses fatherhood in Cameroon in the context of anthropological, sociological, and psychological literature. With a focus on the family, the review examines the image and role of the father, the division of labor by gender, and the changing value of the Cameroonian father. The review notes that Cameroonian culture assigns the bulk…

This brief focuses on the role of fathers in contributing to children's well-being. The brief notes that collecting better data on fathers is vital to federal and state efforts to reform the welfare and child support systems and that understanding fathers' roles in their children's lives could help parents and social service providers better…

Parents encourage their children to follow paths they themselves find vicariously satisfying, perpetuating a family cycle of deferred dreams. What parents must do to free their children from the cycle of hand-me-down dreams is first to free themselves. To do so, they have to examine how happy they are with their own career decisions. Understanding…

This study examined the determinants of school enrollment in Ghana, considering historical and social information to formulate an econometric model of school enrollment patterns for households. Data came from a 1989 survey of households in Ghana. The survey collected basic information about community characteristics, health and school facilities,…

Focusing on the differential impact on self-descriptions made by perceived descriptions of the self made by mother, father, teachers, and best friends, this study analyzed data gathered in two high schools in a major Midwestern city, one serving a middle-class white population, the other a lower-class population about one third black. (Author/JM)

The stereotype differential was used to assess stereotypes about English Canadians, French Canadians, and Canadian Indians in three age levels of school children, as well as their parents. Results indicated that as children grow older their stereotypes become more consensual, less evaluative, and more similar to those in the adult community. (JB)

It is suggested that the interplay of demands and resources over time governs not only the well-being of family members but also the behavior of these members vis-a-vis the larger society. (Author/FF)

The results of both studies indicated that harsh'' parental practices predict subsequent social desirability responding. (Authors)

From a symposium on Cross-Cultural Studies of Mother-Infant Interaction at the Biennial Meeting for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, Minn., April 2, 1971. (MB)

First, what parents do with their young children does influence child intellectual performance; second, we cannot categorize any group of parents; third, many parents are now doing the right thing"; fourth, parent education is a reasonable effort. (Author)