The author recounts the family and school life of an exceptionally gifted child - her son, Michael Grost - from birth to his graduation from Michigan State University at the age of 15 years. She has chronicled the development of Mike (IQ 200+) with many humorous, frustrating, desparing, triumphant, and incredible personal experiences of Mike and…

A course of study, developed by teachers to make home and family education more meaningful and interesting to students, and focusing on privileges, responsibilities and characteristics of an effective babysitter, is presented. Contents include: the job; child development and guidance; accident prevention; and community and parental responsibility…

Without many changes in goals since 1939, Toledo's Family Life Education Center continues, to serve well its growing community. (Editor)

The concept of "family life cycle" has become increasingly prominent in the study of "family development"--the formation, maintenance, change, and dissolution of marriage and family relations. An evaluation of this concept is accomplished by examining the relationships among three possible stratification schemes for studying family development.…

Presents an overall assessment of 1977 federal policies pertaining to child advocacy, a description of the effect of these policies on family life, and general guidelines for the concerned layman. (CM)

This paper attempts to identify appropriate theoretical frameworks for the study of Black family life. The author concludes by calling upon Black family researchers to become more sensitive to inherent "objective/subjective" biases in contemporary theorizing about Black families. (Author)

Interviews with parents at two stages of the family life cycle provide comparable data on some tasks and problems of parenting. Differences in involvement and perception of problems are identified between mothers and fathers and parents in school-age and teen-age stages. Implications are drawn for parent education programs. (Author)

Quality of marriage of students at a midwestern university is assessed in relation to sources of financial support and certain demographic characteristics. Quality of marriage was significantly lower if the wife only was enrolled or if the couple depended on her earnings as a major source of income. (Author)

In the interview Donald Super discusses his family and developmental history, early work experiences, graduate school experiences, significant life experiences, serving in World War II, his work toward a theory of vocational development, being an educator, perspectives of the profession, and retirment. (Author)

Advocates better outreach, preventive care and nutrition education for expectant parents in an effort to upgrade the quality of life. (CM)

Classrooms are envisioned where teachers promote a sense of community so that each child feels important as a contributing member and feels that it is a good place to be. (MM)

In writing about the general problem of role conflict and the academic woman the author suggests that many of the conflicts women face are generational conflicts, that part of a woman professional's problem is the value structure prevailing at the time when she matured. Also suggests that the male contemporaries of woman academics contribute to…

Identifies main work sequences of women during the first three stages of marriage and considers the influence of level of education, birthplace, and year of marriage on work sequence. An A.I.D. analysis illustrates characteristics of women most likely to adopt a given pattern of work. (Author)

A study of desire for, frequency of, and attitudes towards extramarital involvement (EMI) was conducted, using 100 male and female college students ranging in age from 19 to 55. Predictive factors other than desire, frequency, and attitude were number of marriages, and the social desirability scale. (Author)

Following a short review of research on male roles in home making, the authors report a study and a follow-up conducted to examine and describe the husband's parental and household responsibilities in three occupational levels and three geographic regions. (JT)