There are over 28 million children of alcoholics in the United States, 22 million of whom have now reached adulthood yet continue to experience emotional, mental, and physical effects of life in an alcoholic family. In the workplace, adult children of alcoholics (ACOAs) have recently become acknowledged as a group who face special challenges. The…

While open family communication about sexuality is generally considered beneficial, little research has examined characteristics of parents who talk to their children about sexuality. This study attempted to identify variables related to family discussions of sexuality in 290 college students and their parents. Both parents participated in 206…

This report is the first in a series examining television's treatment of specific issues in women's lives. This report focuses on the way in which children and families are portrayed on television and how this relates to the reality of families' lives. In particular, the report examines family interactions, income level, race relations, and child…

This monograph was written to help teachers, counselors, and parents who live and work with adolescents. It explains the psychological tasks of adolescence, separation from parents, and identity formation. Guidelines are provided for adolescent and parental development in several areas. An overview of regressive adaptation focuses on expressions…

This report describes the status of New York's Puerto Rican community and calls for greater corporate, philanthropic, government and community support for change. A brief introduction argues that Puerto Ricans represent a vast resource and must be assisted in gaining their rightful access to the mainstream, for the benefit of all society. The need…

In Spanish, the booklet addresses basic information for families with children who have autism. Facts about the syndrome are listed, followed by signs and symptoms, a summary of programmatic requirements, answers to questions frequently asked by families, suggestions to help parents cope, concerns facing adolescents and adults with autism, and…

In the past, the social science literature has ignored or played down the role of fathers in relation to childrearing in the United States. Until recently, the few studies which did consider the role of fathers in childrearing tended to focus on negatives, particularly studies of Black fathers. Much of this research deals with only a fraction of…

An exploratory study making use of ethnographic and grounded theory methods was carried out with two Hispanic and two Black American working-class families. Exploration focused on how cognitive processes taking place in the natural setting of the family can best be understood. In order to uncover the intellectual interactions that take place in…

The human values system is a heretofore unresearched area in the developmental changes occurring at the transition to parenthood. Pregnant couples (N=44) and a control group of nonpregnant couples (N=33) were interviewed three times over a 9-month period to examine the impact of the transition to parenthood on the organization of both instrumental…

A survey questionnaire sent to 371 public school superintendents in Arkansas sought to identify schools offering a program of family life/sex education. An attempt was also made to determine if schools which offered such programs could be distinguished from those that did not, based on responses of school officials to a set of attitudinal…

This paper provides a critical overview of recent developments in parent group education and suggests a basic reorientation of both the principles and structures currently characteristic of the field. A framework designed to encompass the ecology of parent functioning is offered as a stimulus to broadening the view of parenting found in…

This directory, compiled by the Princeton Center for Infancy, inventories a wide variety of organizations and services which parents can utilize in child rearing. More than 130 topics are discussed, including problems relating to health, daily routines, illness, family life, discipline, socialization, environment planning, education, family…

In this project conducted from November 1974 until April 1978, each of 5 site communities was assisted in the development of a coordinated planning process which emphasized prevention of juvenile delinquency, interagency cooperation, and identification of needs and problems based on research data. Throughout its operation, the project stressed the…

During the past 12 years the Oregon Social Learning Center has been studying the application of social learning theory to aggressive children. One result has been the development of a treatment program in which parents are trained to alter their child's behavior. That program has been evaluated on three separate samples of aggressive children.…

Violence in the family is defined as a mode of behavior involving the use of physical force among family members. Such force varies in severity from homicide at one extreme to mild spankings at the other. It also varies by intent. In some cases the intent is to control people's behavior; in other cases it is to vent personal hostility; in still…