This article summarizes 2 research studies with approximately 2,000 adolescents and their parents that investigated the influence of parents' gender stereotypes on their perceptions of their own children and on the children's self-perceptions of ability, especially in mathematics. Implications for three areas of gifted education are drawn: (1)…

Examines elementary school counselors' perspectives about the effects of parental substance abuse on children of substance abusers (COSAs) and the counselor's role and ability to meet these children's needs. Identifies the school-based services available to COSAs, perceived barriers to providing services, and counselors' experience with family…

Proposes a model in which parental social status (PSS) affects school achievement and self-concept in the academic domain. Also studied how perceived PSS affects self-concept in social domains. Findings supported the model with one exception: PSS was unrelated to academic self-concept in the urban setting. (RJM)

Examined 547 college students' adjustment. Results indicated significant main effects for gender but not for alcoholic parentage. Gender differences occurred for alcohol abuse, drug abuse, and other problems. Findings suggested that, in terms of adjustment, college students from alcoholic homes should not be distinguished from the general…

Discusses the development and field testing of a modified Delphi strategy used to create career support materials for rural parents. Describes innovative strategies for collecting data on the parental role in youth's career-related decisions, such as focus group interviews, direct-to-text data recording, and a funneling strategy. (RJM)

Analyzes the effect of parental divorce at adolescence to determine if young women, who initially coped well, experienced a significant reversal in adjustment in early adulthood. Results from a 10-year study found no significant differences in mean adjustment scores between girls from intact and divorced families at any time. (RJM)

A two-year study found that children generally watched children's television programs without parents and adult programs with parents. Children's and parents' coviewing of adult programs was predicted by parents' viewing habits. Coviewing declined with age. Parents who encouraged children's viewing, viewed television with their children more than…

Describes how parents can be most effective in teaching their children to value the written language as communication and enjoy reading. Parents are encouraged to keep reading meaningful and make it fun, optimize the child's environment, and maximize success to develop the child's self-concept as a reader. (SM)

This discussion identifies career decision-making skills of deaf youth; stresses the important influence of parents; notes school factors in career development; and reviews the availability of vocational rehabilitation, postsecondary training, and employment for this population. Recommendations focus on development of a National Network on Career…

Examines ways in which a parent can measure and help to create a school environment that projects a positive climate in which a child can learn and grow. Suggestions are offered for setting up a school climate committee and for operating such a committee. (GLR)

Examines the relationship between parental divorce or separation and selected aspects of academic motivation and educational aspiration for 900 African-American first-year college students. By the age of college attendance, there may be no salient motivational or educational aspiration differences resulting from a nonintact family among these…

Examines gender differences in 4-year olds, observing, in 3 replications, 18 to 21 girls and 20 to 22 boys at home and school. Relations between individual characteristics and behavior, or between different aspects of behavior, differ in a number of ways between girls and boys. (SLD)

Explores the complex relationship between parental control and delinquency, accounting for age and gender by examining effects of powers/controls and interactions among powers/controls within age and gender groups, using data from the 1972 National Survey of Youth (402 female and 470 male white 11- to 18-year-old adolescents). (SLD)

Examined parents' role in the development of their children's moral reasoning. Differences in interaction style in discussions of hypothetical and of real-life dilemmas were found. Children's moral development was best predicted by a parental discussion style involving supportive interactions and the presentation of higher level moral reasoning.…

Interviews with 10 pairs of Latino siblings attending college show that brothers and sisters learned about money similarly: through scarcity of money in the family, from discussions and disagreements about money between their parents, and through active instruction by parents about saving money. Compares results with earlier studies using White…