The article deals with the diversity of personal talent, individualization of instructional techniques, and the early education of children. (Author/MF)

Indicates the need for schools to present materials that will produce positive attitudes toward family planning. Proposes the development of a comprehensive sourcebook of material that will contain an overall theme with material planned for each grade level and each school subject. (DS)

The authors's concern is the delineation of family developmental processes from the time the children leave home to the time of their parents old age and also the investigation of qualitative aspects of kinship interaction and as different kinds of kinship ties, obligation, value consensus, generational transmission and conflict, and adult…

The concept of trial marriage is traced historically and anthropologically. To harness the trend constructively the author recommends that young people who have had a living together experience, evaluate it with a counselor in order to gain insight about their potentialities as mates. (Author)

This study attempted to ascertain whether a mixed sex group of students in a university family life course provided an optimal learning arrangement as compared to a nonmixed sex group. (Author)

Describes the actual experiences of a Canadian language teacher in Paris, France. (DS)

Survey revealed a comparatively superficial exposure for about 65 per cent of the girls in the state and less then 50 percent of the boys. Suggests that public schools continue to develop comprehensive programs and that teacher education institutions imporve training programs. (Author)

Discusses a study to determine to what extent family life education concepts were included in elementary school curricula and to determine the factorial structure of the concepts based on teachers' responses. Found that elementary teachers conceptualize family life and child development concepts differently than do many home economics…

Examined married women's (N=453) social and economic labor market attainments from a family life-cycle perspective using a longitudinal study. Findings suggest that the effects of early family experiences on attainment are larger and more permanent than those of later family experiences and actually increase over time. (Author/JAC)

Discusses the dangers of simplistic criticisms of television and highlights opportunities shared by broadcasters and parents to strengthen families by creating better television. (JJD)

Surveys children's picture-story sex books and parents' child-guidance manuals from the early 1900s to the present and reveals the twentieth century changes in approaches to sex education. (HOD)

Presents the results of a study examining the content of marriage and family textbooks as it relates to students' changing attitudes toward delaying parenthood. Discusses commonly held beliefs and how they are presented in current textbooks. (CT)