Discusses human sexuality education in light of goals of exemplary programs in biology. Defines and reviews support for sexuality education programs, examining one program goal (behavior change), opposition to sexuality education, and values clarification. Also identifies questions of interest to many adolescents, encouraging teachers to have…

Two-hundred seventy women, divided into three age groups and three income levels, were asked to evaluate the importance of five family-related developmental tasks, as defined by Robert Havighurst. Results affirm that younger women facing decisions about marriage, family, and home consider these tasks significantly less important than do older…

Describes a therapeutic approach for helping families relieve a crisis by calling on their extended family of relatives, friends, and neighbors to meet and initiate a healing process leading towards a productive and constructive resolution of their crisis. (Author/RK)

With the steady rise in the number of women joining the workforce, fathers are taking on more responsibility for the nurturing of their children, partly by necessity but often by choice, while still retaining their "breadwinner" pressures. This book is intended to help men reconcile the demands of work and family. It is based on a decade of…

This paper examines conflicting evidence regarding the impacts of welfare reform on children's wellbeing. Research shows that poverty rates, teen crime and fertility, and child maltreatment are down. Lack of appropriate state-level data on indicators of child wellbeing precludes serious analysis of the role of welfare reform for most indicators.…

Offering an alternative to clinician's prevalent focus on family dysfunction, this book draws upon extensive clinical and research experience to present a framework for therapeutic and preventive work with couples and families who are distressed, vulnerable, or at risk. The book identifies key interactional processes that enable family members to…

This document describes a review of the North Allegheny (Pennsylvania) School District's Family and Consumer Sciences curriculum in order to develop a program that will meet students' needs to integrate family, work, and citizenship. Through intensive research, site visits to other school districts around the country, survey data, resource…

This guidebook provides information, activities, and overheads to help educators better understand approaches and strategies toward making sexuality education more accessible to persons with developmental disabilities. Chapter 1, "How Do I Start? Where Do I Start?," discusses providing accurate, age appropriate, and useful sexuality education.…

This paper reports on anthropological investigations of communes on the West Coast of the United States. Described are the economic bases, ideologies, sources and procedures of recruitment, leadership and authority patterns, marital and parent-child relationships, and problems associated with socialization. (Author)

Career education is no longer just a sound idea that needs to be tried, and the first steps have been taken to test its validity in real schools with real students. The school's success or failure with the upcoming generation of young people will become apparent when they enter the labor market. However, career education is felt to be the best…

Study questions treatment services offered to children in trouble and suggests mental health services be specifically strengthened. Excerpted from Juvenile Justice Confounded: Pretensions and Realities of Treatment Services'' published in 1972 by National Council on Crime and Delinquency. (DS)

Reprinted from Closer Look,'' a newsletter of the U.S. Office of Education's Bureau of Education for the Handicapped. (DS)

Mrs. Rex is secretary of the Foster Parent Association of Child Care Service, Delaware County, Pennsylvania. (DS)

To assist professionals fully aware of the content of family life education in organizing change, a planned sequence is suggested. The method is focused on process, and developed cooperatively with recipients or clients. (Author)

Detailed description of approaches used, emphasizing community education and post-literacy programs. (SP)