Compared ego identity in adolescents identified as having behavioral problems with those reported not to have behavior problems. Found ego identity achievement, including trust, initiative, and identity, but not autonomy and industry, significantly greater in those without behavior problems. Adolescents who had achieved a higher degree of identity…

Changing family and work roles are strong forces in the United States today. Knowing and acknowledging the significance of these changes are important goals in the field of home economics. This paper illustrates the impact on middle school curriculum. (JOW)

Examines family ritual, primarily around ceremonial occasions such as holidays and birthdays, tracing its transmission across three generations. Investigates the diversity, prevalence, and quantity of ritual in families and its change and continuity over historical time. Concludes that ritual provides a sense of continuity and is still important…

Administered questionnaires to 177 college students to examine relationship of family structure, family relationship variables, and personal attributes to previous dating behaviors. Family structure had no effect on number of partners. Adolescents from nonintact households began dating earlier than those from intact households. Personal attributes…

Offers characteristics that mark positive home and school environments for the literacy development of young children. (HOD)

Structural equation modeling was used to investigate the relation between home environment, self-concept, and academic achievement. It was found and cross-validated over four samples of 2,297 Korean adolescents that self-concept is a mediating variable between home environment and academic achievement. (Author/BS)

From a large sample of seven-year-olds in Dunedin, New Zealand, a group of 52 boys and 32 girls with stable behavior problems was selected and compared with the remainder of the sample. Content concerns perinatal histories, family background characteristics, and developmental status, with particular reference to cognitive development. (RH)

It was hypothesized that children brought up under coercive power would be more likely to exhibit immediate gratification, whereas children brought up under noncoercive power would be more likely to delay gratification. The hypothesis was confirmed. (Author)

Addresses two related problems: what are the appropriate measures for comparing effects of blocks or compounds of variables (each block conceived as having a single effect) when the causal ordering is assumed to be known, and how can single measures be created for each such block or compound, so that the comparisons can be made. (Author/JM)

Suggests that parenthood is one of the most important responsibilities that an individual can assume in life, but that it is the role for which people have the least amount of preparation. Education for living causes should be a part of every school program from kindergarten to 12th grade. (Author/AM)

Discusses the literature dealing with the black family, the family as a holistic unit, the black womans' role and the myth of matriarchy, children and their place, and the changing nature of the black male and his effect upon the black family. (Author/AM)

Emphasizes three themes: learning is a process that begins at birth, or before; early learning in the home is crucial; and parents are important teachers. (Author/IRT)

This study examines variations in family socialization practices among Anglo American and Mexican Americans and the effect of these practices on achievement values, self concept and educational achievement. Data were collected from 102 junior high school students and their families. (Author/BW)

The Parent-Adolescent Relationship Development (PARD) program teaches fathers and their adolescent sons communication skills. Besides improving communication and relationship the PARD program is seen as meeting individual and family developmental needs and the consequent adjustments in relationship. (Author)

Social development stresses the importance of working together with others in life. The home setting can emphasize social development and its objectives of instruction. How should parents assist the child in quality social development in which good human relations exist? First and foremost, parents should serve as models to children for good human…