Suggests that family life educators can help break the cycle of child abuse by teaching positive discipline strategies to future parents. Teaching suggestions are offered including inviting student perspective and reaction and role playing to help students confront attitudes toward discipline. (Author/JAC)

Systems and communications theories applied to the delicate task of matching children with families promise an objective method for understanding the complexities of family relationships. The author shows how one agency successfully incorporated sophisticated theoretical tools into a study process evaluating the stability of foster family…

Highlights the data collected from some 70 teachers and administrators, several hundred parents, and approximately 3,500 students involved in a family life curriculum project in 13 California public schools. Students reported that decision making, factual information, and self-esteem were the most important things they learned from the course.…

A review of 29 current high school family studies texts reveals that almost a third evidence a pronatalist bias. Results indicate these texts are of questionable value to teachers who want to encourage independent thinking about parenthood. Only three texts were commended for unbiased approaches. (Author/JAC)

This historical study of divorce practice has only recently begun. Using Worcester County, Massachusetts as a test case, a preliminary hypothesis that explains the increasing frequency of divorce in terms of basic changes of American life, particularly the increased economic independence of women brought about by industrialization, is presented.…

Describes the use of simulation as a technique of increasing student awareness of the unconscious choices in dating and mate selection. The simulations are useful in arousing curiosity and interest and stimulating and focusing class discussion in courses which deal with marriage and family relationships. (Author)

The Family Education Association of West-Central Indiana is a response to an expressed community need for parent education. It aims at helping parents understand child behavior; recognize stages of development; clarify values and expectations; reduce family conflict; open communication between parents and children; and build greater mutual respect…

A program for teaching sex education in the schools, using public health and school nurses with teacher and parental cooperation is described, including program objectives, methodology, presentation, and course content. (JMF)

This paper presents an analysis of essays by secondary school students and the results of an attitude scale administered to a sample of university students and professionals in Sierra Leone. It documents their stereotypes of and attitudes towards traditional African and "western" marriage and family life practices. (Author)

The author enumerates 23 activities which she has found helpful in teaching high school students about child development. (HMV)

Examines the hypothesis that family origins will be of substantially greater import in determining the formation of aspirations than will ability and performance in Brazil. Presents data to evaluate the adequacy of the first stages of the Sewell and associates social psychological model of status attainment for Brazil. (Author/RK)

It is proposed that television programs be utilized in classes on the family. The utility of program content is critically discussed. Also considered are methods for classroom use, and problems of access to program material. Presented at the National Council on Family Relations Annual Meeting, October 20, 1976. (Author)

This study is based on data gathered in interviews with 400 families with a developmentally disabled family member. The study supports the need for supportive services to ease the demands created by the handicapped person and reports the types of services perceived by these families as needed. (Author)

Parents in communities experiencing rapid language and culture change face particular discourse issues as they construct their homes' language and culture. This article discusses particular language decisions and influences faced by families from two Inuit communities in Arctic Quebec. In most homes, there were fluid boundaries with no conscious…