The author briefly outlines a socially-based accounting system which evaluates not only economic but also social and aesthetic variables in arriving at a quantification of the benefits and costs of any action or failure to act. This system is designed to provide an additional tool in decision-making. (Author/MA)

Reports findings from a longitudinal study of 200 children who are growing up in a variety of family styles. This interim report views the study project in its first and middle phases, covering the birth, infancy and entry into the preschool period of the study children. (BR)

This paper argues the need for curricula for women's growth, highlights the experimental curriculum, content and process, summarizes the data on the pre, post, and longitudinal measures of ego and moral maturity, and presents implications of curricula for women's growth. Prepared for the American Psychological Association, Chicago, 1975. (Author)

The unit for junior and senior high school students presents a description of a Kenyan mother's life style; geography and history of Kenya; map and discussion questions; and research ideas. (AV)

This article assesses past and present utopian models for the organization of future societies. It examines some thoughts on designing the future and outlines a future habitat based on self-sustaining systems and compatible social, political, and economic structures. Available from: 923 Kensington Avenue, Buffalo, New York 14215. (JK)

This study analyzes the twentieth-century American fertility swing. By viewing the three classical fertility determinants, fecundity, mate exposure, and birth control, as dynamic variables with both independent and interactive effects, it attempts to decipher the process by which some individuals gain control of their childbearingwhile others do…

Lifestyles of three cultural groups (Amish, Hutterites, Bedouins) illustrate social stability isolated from change. Students should study stable cultures in order to understand the role of tradition, minority group contributions, and different ways people achieve common goals of food production, housing, and personal satisfaction. For journal…

Health educators should encourage school systems to provide sex education as least as early as junior high school, and they ought to urge that content and approach of the curriculum be realistic and relevant to the sexual lifestyles of today's generation. (MB)

The impact of inflation and recession on the leisure behavior of different economic and cultural groups resulted in a change of free time activities in all groups to some extent with the exception of the highest income level. (JD)

Explores some of the directions that the family in the year 2000 will likely follow. Special attention is paid to key socio-demographic trends as well as social psychological factors that have emerged as possible indicators of social change and family adaptability to the stresses of an ever-changing postindustrial society. (SH)

The hypothesis was that structures built by group members in dealing with conflict and decision making would be contingent on their life styles. Three different sets of groups of persons with homogeneous life styles created three different (and predicted) structures in a problem-solving task. (Author)

Professional and governmental enterprises in health promotion are based on serious conceptual, operational, and ethical flaws. Proposes an approach to health promotion intervention emphasizing the following: (1) protecting the public interest; (2) assuring equal access to a health-promoting life; and (3) giving primacy to "non-health"…

Describes a series of interviews with Japanese speakers of English-as-a-second-language focusing on their uses of English and their life-style characteristics outside Japan. Results support current research indicating that successful language learners apply specific strategies to the task of learning. (Author/DJD)

Analyzes national longitudinal survey data to explore consequences of young adults' growing tendency to leave the parental home earlier and marry later. Reports that young women living independently become more likely to plan for employment, to lower their expected family size, and to support more non-traditional beliefs about sex roles.…

Investigated the relationship between a man's sex role identity and his female partner's perceptions of his influence on her life choices. Sex role identity was measured by the Bem Sex Role Inventory, and perception of influence was measured by the Interpersonal Influence Survey. Counseling implications are discussed. (Author/KS)