Ninety-three families of children with developmental delays were interviewed, to investigate the functional accommodations made to sustain daily routines for a child with a disability. Results found a downward trend in accommodation intensity from age 7 to 11, while types of accommodations increased from age 3 to 11. (CR)

A recent doctoral research study suggests that a husband's support may have a powerful effect on females entering and succeeding at the superintendency. All married respondents (14 out of 21) entered the job with strong spousal support and said this support was necessary for undertaking the role. A majority said the price was high and they would…

Many white, middle-class teachers tend to dismiss their students' cultures and judge parental involvement by their own behavioral norms. Many nontraditional literary experiences occur as parents and children go about their daily lives. Teachers may also have limited views of parental competence, motivation, and home-school collaboration. Teachers…

Latina female and Latino male college students completed self-report surveys regarding family of origin experience, including sexual communication with parents growing up. Latino parents of this sample tended to use direct rather than indirect strategies for communicating about sexuality. Analyses provide information regarding sexual communication…

Changes in the workplace that would provide flexibility for working parents are slowly developing and receiving government, business, and societal attention. A sidebar, "Mother, Professional, Volunteer: One Woman's Balancing Act," presents an account of how one woman rearranged her professional life to enable her to do full-time…

Administered the genogram/family chronology exercise in undergraduate family science classes. Examined evaluation questionnaires completed by 166 students in introductory family science class. Found student response to be overwhelmingly positive. Summarizes reactions and notes benefits to students, instructors, and the educational process of…

A family's trip to Winterville Indian Mounds State Park in Mississippi is described, focusing on the frustrations of a gifted six-year old who fell in the muck of the Great Temple Mound, and on the joys of seeing spectacular displays of ancient earthworks. (JDD)

This study investigated self-concepts and quality of parent-adolescent communication among 60 gifted adolescent females, including 42 participants in early college entrance programs and 18 who stayed with traditional high school programs. Results indicate that parent-daughter communication varied widely between mothers and fathers and was…

Results of a study of 925 educated Chinese who recalled child-rearing patterns of their parents indicated that greater perceived parental dominating control was related to less perceived parental warmth and that greater parental warmth and less parental control were related to greater perceived family harmony. (RH)

Examined United States survey data from the 1950s through the 1980s for changes in family life norms and values. Found in 1960s and 1970s data a weakening of imperative to marry and remain married, stay monogamous, have children, and maintain gender role separation. Observed flattening of trends during early 1980s. Links family life trends to…

Single mothers' coping behavior, psychological functioning, and communication to their children about financial matters and personal problems predicted the degree of psychological distress experienced by the children. (PCB)

Examined the consequences of parent care reported by 150 husbands of women who were principal caregivers of their elderly disabled mothers, and compared the men's perceptions of the caregiving situation with those of their wives. Overall, the husbands and wives disagreed on the extent to which relationships in the nuclear family were affected by…

Examined Chicana child-rearing practices and their relationship to child behaviors as well as the relevance of demographic variables in Mexican American family environment in maternal practices in rearing children. Observed 47 mother-kindergarten child dyads during structured teaching task in family home. Results showed diversity in child rearing…

A survey of families who had adopted mentally retarded children approximately 5 years earlier found good family adjustment, with only 2 of 44 children not living with their adoptive/foster parents for reasons related to adjustment difficulties. The families had adopted or were fostering 12 additional children, 11 with handicapping conditions.…

Notes that significant changes have occurred in recent times to the structure and dynamics of family life in Britain. Examines trends and issues related to marriage, cohabitation, fertility, extramarital births, divorce, one-parent families, remarriage and stepfamilies, children in families, employment, and the future of social policy in Britain.…