Evidence is accumulating that experiences of children within the violent family are fundamental causes of the continuing problem of family and societal violence. To examine attitudes and values as a function of experience with family violence, 114 male undergraduate students completed a questionnaire assessing general demographics, and several…

This book on drug abuse prevention is addressed to teenagers and covers five main areas where drug use can be prevented: schools, communities, media, the social scene, and the family. The first chapter on school programs briefly discusses peer-led alcohol and drug education, peer counseling, creating a positive school climate, and developing…

A majority of the Samoan students in Hawaii and the mainland United States come from American Samoa, but a small number are immigrants from western Samoa, which is geographically and politically separate. The culture of western Samoa is very traditional, and Samoan families are categorized as "extended." All children are expected to help…

The author identifies the essentials of an educated person as: basic skills, common learnings (family relationships, social group status, property and trade, government and law, ethnic differences, ethics, sexuality, conflict resolution, and natural phenomena understanding), understanding of leisure time, and career education. (EA)

In this concluding part, article raises questions related to the rationale for black fears as a basis for black control and questions the efficacy of a movement directed toward an overall population limiting strategy visited upon poor and black people in America and in the Third World. (Author/RJ)

This article tests the hypothesis that the socioeconomic structure of a country influences the family phases and through these changes has an effect on divorce rates. The interpretations are based on contrasting aggregate data of European countries, which were divided into two groups according to their degree of industrialization. (Author)

Presents the results of a study to determine whether an abbreviated edition of the Miller-Fisk questionnaire could be developed that would retain the range of content and statistical reliability of the original. (RB)

The recent period of recession and high unemployment has led to increased public interest in the impact of unemployment on families. This paper reviews the available literature on unemployment and the family and relates it to current policy issues. Unemployment is found to be related to family functioning and stability, spending patterns,…

Extended in-depth role-playing and simulation, used effectively in the social sciences for some time, is seen as being a particularly effective technique for the intermediate level foreign language class. This paper describes a teaching unit of six or seven weeks, developed for use in the third or fourth semester of college level German, which…

A role-sharing marriage is one in which the husband and wife share equally the rights and responsibilities traditionally assigned to one or the other sex as part of their ideal family role, in the areas of breadwinning, decisionmaking, and domestic chores. A marriage style based on sexual equality is rarely found in practice and subsequently has…

This student guide for a program concerned with what young children need to know about death and how parents can help them deal with it is designed around a magazine format to allow maximum flexibility to different groups using the materials. The guide is divided into seven sections: (1) an overview of the theme and contents; (2) a summary of the…

These two annotated reading guides to Boston's political and social history developed out of lecture sequences offered at the Boston Public Library under the National Endowment for the Humanities Library Learning Program. The first, which cites 28 titles focusing on various community leaders of Boston from the coming of the Puritans to the 1970's,…