This paper presents a model that offers strategies for enhancing quality relationships across the family life cycle. The materials support the identification of characteristics of strong families and describe the course of marital development. The model includes a description of the need for an educational and/or intervention framework to enhance…

As more women enter the work force, a new family phenomenon is emerging - the shared parenting household. To examine the dynamics of this new family type, 40 couples in shared parenting families were interviewed. In these families, both parents shared the responsibilities of primary caregiver while also working at full-time white collar or…

Attitudes toward homework are explored through a review of research and interviews. The interviews were conducted with teachers, students, principals, and parents on the pros and cons of homework assignments. Included in the discussions were the kinds of homework assigned, reasons for the assignments, time spent on homework, and the effects of…

This study sought to determine if relationships exist among various factors pertaining to measured burnout and the life and teaching events perceived as stressors by practicing teachers. The subjects were 220 full-time public school teachers from five school districts, both urban and rural, divided evenly between elementary and secondary levels.…

TEFL textbooks should be concerned with teaching all the social strata in countries where English is being studied and should not, therefore, contain materials that are likely to alienate the disadvantaged pupils. (LG)

This article proposes an access program to human services for the married student population that can be coordinated by the college student personnel worker. (PD)

Discusses the question of whether family therapy is a counselling fad. Points out that human beings alienated from families are not sub-human. Address delivered at Canadian Guidance and Counselling Association Convention, June 1973. (Author)

Black women represent the legitimate instruments by which the women's movement and the black movement can forge a power wedge for accomplishing significant change that will benefit both groups--namely, change relating to legal, economic, social, educational, and political issues. (Author)

Considered the evolution of the family, its past as a unit for molding social values, and its future influence in America. (RK)

After describing a social learning formulation of the male alcoholic's marriage, this paper reviews the few studies of behavioral marital therapy (BMT) for alcoholics and their wives. Although none of these studies are as rigorous as one might wish and many of them are merely case studies, a review of the literature shows that behavioral marital…

Antecedents and consequences of adolescent parenting were examined using a representative national sample of 1,000 adults, selected from the 1960 Project TALENT participants. Three- to four-hour interviews were conducted with these adults. Out of the total group, 10% of the men and 31% of the women had had a child during adolescence. Higher…

The model of the family as a set of contingent careers is brought into focus by Wilbert Moore's suggestions that in schedule synchronization the family takes priority in claiming time, the wife-mother asserts such claims and arranges the schedule, and common leisure activities symbolize the solidarity of the unit. The perception of parents of the…

Crowded household conditions have a small adverse effect on the physical and intellectual development of children. Parental health and socioeconomic status are found to be more momentous in child health and development. (Author/DE)

Marital adjustment over the family life cycle is reexamined using data from probability samples of married couples studied in coordinated research projects in three different states--Iowa, Ohio, and Georgia. (Author)