Documents the range and extent of family life configurations in prime-time television over a six-year period (1979-1985). Reveals that prime-time network television tends to reinforce conservative to moderate models of family life, while also presenting a diversity of nonstandard interpretations of family which are framed in the nonthreatening…

Describes three family types associated with bulimia: perfect, overprotective, and chaotic. Outlines functions of bulimia in the family and common treatment strategies. (Author/ABB)

Uses phenomenology to (1) examine how stories of pregnancy exemplify the strategic nature of family storytelling, and (2) explore the nature and function of storytelling as a cultural strategy for the generation and reproduction of small-group cultures, and (3) reveal the way in which stories of pregnancy organize communication and constitute "the…

Investigated the structural pictorial properties of a children's version of The Family Environment Scale as a content validity study of the scale. Age differences in results between third- and seventh-grade children were confirmed, and social comprehension levels increased with age. Implications for present use and future research are discussed.…

Analyzes data from the Minnesota Youth Poll and the Michigan Early Adolescent Study to determine young people's aspirations, career interests, future expectations, and sex-role attitudes. Findings indicate that careers and family are both important to this population. Recommendations are included. (CH)

Presents a summary of ethical issues that have been identified previously in family life education and enrichment. Applies concerns in marriage and family therapy to the interventions of education and enrichment. Suggests a number of modifications and describes some ideas for a specific code of ethics. (Author/ABB)

Results indicated offspring of within-group versus across-racial/ethnic marriages did not differ in personality test scores. As compared with offspring of within-group marriages, male offspring of across-group marriages scored higher on a factor measuring socially desirable traits and lower on a factor measuring intraception, while female…

Examines autobiographical fiction written for children in which the stories of ordinary lives are recorded and passed on to children, who, in turn, are affected by and affect the values and assumptions of their culture. (HOD)

Describes relationship patterns in lesbian couples as varying systematically from relationship patterns in heterosexual couples. These patterned differences are addressed from a systemic perspective in five areas: distance regulation and boundary maintenance, sexual expression, financial arrangements, breaking up, and stage differences in coming…

Presents six-part methodology for teaching basic concepts of family systems to non-family therapists and describes application of methodology to teach primary care physicians. Explains use of simulated encounters in which a physically symptomatic adolescent is interviewed alone, then with his mother, then with his whole family. (Author/NRB)

Compares aspects of the work and private lives of 43 French and 20 Canadian managerial women with careers in essentially male occupations. Issues of socialization, coordination of work and family life, sponsorship in the workplace, sex ratios and division of labor, and equal opportunities are examined. (SK)

Studied time use by mothers in single- and two-parent families, with both employed and nonemployed mothers. Single, employed mothers have least amount of time to spend in most activities. Analysis of covariance and least square means were used to study and identify significant differences in household tasks, child care, volunteer time, personal…

The author addresses rehabilitation professionals in elaborating on 10 observations of the complexities surrounding the illness/disability experience and suggests that health care professionals (and systems) as well as patients (and families) recognize their own limitations and one another's strengths to enable families to live as fully as…

Used historical and interview data to examine the interethnic families formed after 1915 in rural California by immigrant men from India and their Hispanic spouses. Describes childrearing and family life and analyzes the male and female networks linking these families to each other and to the wider society. (JAC)

This study examined the amount of time urban adolescents spent in housework. Data used here resulted from the elecen-state family time use survey, "An Inter-state Urban/Rural Investigation of Families' Time Use." The findings indicate that adolescents in this multi-state sample average 71 minutes per day in household work. (SSH)