Many large corporations are proactively developing hiring and personnel management policies to accommodate dual career couples employed by them. Neither the public sector in general nor universities in particular have developed such policies and little is known about what universities are doing to accommodate dual career couple applicants or…

This booklet is part of the "Children's Activity Series," a set of four supplemental teaching resources that promote awareness about health, family life, and cultural diversity for children in kindergarten through third grade. The booklet contains stories, drawings, and "sockpuppets" to help children in kindergarten through third grade develop a…

General Conference Mennonites and Old Order Amish are compared and contrasted in the areas of physical appearance, religious beliefs, formal education, methods of farming, and home settings. General Conference Mennonites and Amish differ in physical appearance and especially in dress. The General Conference Mennonite men and women dress the same…

An important issue with respect to intergenerational relationships between aging parents and their adult children is the influence of the father's retirement. Interview data were collected from 84 non-retired and 40 retired couples to determine whether retirement was related to the frequency and quality of intergenerational contacts. Couples were…

The results of an ethnographic study of black middle class families in Atlanta, Georgia, are presented in this 10-chapter book. Chapter 1 describes the author's reasons for conducting research in Atlanta and how she acquired contacts for reaching the specific population during the fieldwork stage (which occurred between September 1969 and July…

Topics covered in this symposium included: (1) a perspective for seeking commercial sponsorships; (2) developing an activity program that perpetuates developmental skills; (3) emerging American lifestyles: implications for park and recreation professionals; (4) clinical hypnosis: a possible adjunct to therapeutic recreation; (5) impact fees for…

The image and interactions of the black family depicted on television were investigated in order to determine whether changes occurred in the imagery and interactions of black television families between 1980 and 1985, and to compare the family structures and interactive behavior on situation comedies portraying nuclear black families during the…

This study examined the interrelationships between individual development and the family system by testing the hypothesis that variations in family relations during middle adolescence are associated with psychological and social aspects of adolescent development and with parental midlife development. Data were collected from 27 parent-adolescent…

Twenty families in the San Francisco Bay area (California) with new Atari home video game sets were studied from February through June 1981 to obtain data on how the game-playing affected family interaction. Records of play were kept for one week each month and each family member was interviewed at the beginning and the end of the study. It was…

Many women today expect themselves to be everything to everybody, simultaneously meeting the expectations of the workplace and the family. This multifaceted lifestyle usually entails trying to meet incompatible demands with the unavoidable outcome of stress. Learning better ways of managing this stress is imperative for both health and happiness.…

Fear of success in women is a pervasive phenomenon affecting women's career development. Women affected by this phenomenon are often unaware that they are afraid of succeeding. Identification of the factors that contribute to the fear of success in women's career development is important for educators and counselors wanting to assist women in…

In 1987, the U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics interviewed 2,621 juveniles and young adults confined in 50 long-term, state-operated institutions in 26 states. More than one-quarter of the sample were over the age of 18. The results of the survey revealed that nearly 40% of the sample were being held for a violent offense. More than 60% used drugs…

The Teenage Health Teaching Modules (THTM) program is a health education curriculum for adolescents. Each THTM module frames an adolescent health task emphasizing development of self-assessment, communication, decision making, health advocacy, and self-management. This module is designed to help the classroom teacher introduce health-promoting…

In recent years there has been a rapid increase in the number of American families in which both spouses work. The literature regarding preschoolers suggests that one cannot say that being from a dual-earner family will necessarily harm a child. Key issues center not on whether both parents work, but on the quality of substitute care and how well…

These articles represent family recreation research, ideas for families that are in "non-traditional" settings or situations, family strengthening concepts through recreation, church-based concepts as well as a challenge for the professional. Articles included are: (1) "Family Leisure and Recreation: A Bibliography" (Arlin…