The Pakistan Girl Guides Association has participated and continues to participate in a number of social service projects. These projects include community development work, in which the Guides assisted in encouraging girls and women to participate in community work. The association also participated in the Associated Youth Enterprise of UNESCO,…

This annotated bibliography contains about 50 books on Oregon history for student reading. It includes topics such as fishing, pioneer families, frontier life, geography of the northwest, trading and mining, Indians, and the Oregon Trail. Most of the books listed are fiction. A few easily read nonfiction books are included. Most listings identify…

This report contains a description of the Atlanta University School of Social Work's research project, "Toward Reflective Analysis of Black Families". Among the goals of the one-year research project were the following: to compile a 94-page review of significant books for the study of black family life, to create a research/study group composed of…

Presents data describing the fragmentation of the family, suggests causes for the fragmentation, and offers suggestions for reversing the trend. The suggestions focus on day care, part-time employment practices, enhancing the position of women, and work and responsibility. (IRT)

This article reviews a study by Lee, Fishman, and Shimmel which examined drinking patterns of juniors and seniors in high school. The article then goes on to make suggestions about alcohol education programs and the counselor's role in those programs. (Author/EJT)

Reviews the transition from the industrial era to the communications era and its impact on human culture, values, family structure, and governmental structure. Calls on the community colleges to mobilize local communities to contribute to the strength of the nation. (DC)

Author proposes a three-part model of American family history. Prior to the 19th century, the family is viewed as a community; during the 19th century it is seen as a refuge; and the family as encounter group marks the 20th century. Journal availability: see SO 506 794. (BC)

The data from the interviews indicated that, in most areas of family life, the middle-income couples had different attitudes and behavior patterns from the urban and rural low-income couples. The data also indicated that husbands and wives seldom agreed in either their marital attitudes or reported behavior. (Author)

Since the parenting education needs of teenage parents are multifaceted, parenting education must also be multifaceted and begin as early as possible during the pregnancy. (MM)

This paper examines the effect of alternative family forms on children's personalities, social behavior, and school achievement. Presented at the Sixth Annual Family Research Conference, Brigham Young University, February, 1977. (Author)

Various kinds of institutional child socialization facilities have risen over the past decade in response to the demand for multiple options by women and other social circumstances. Tasks that were formerly assumed by the extended family are gradually being supplanted by bureaucracies due to changes in the extended family. (Author)

Appropriate curriculum development strategies can result in the organization of instructional objectives, content, and activities around broad themes and the students' real-life experiences. Four basic areas of living, with substantial culturally pluralistic elements, are family life, community life, human relations, and the American cultural…

The purpose of this study was to determine if preferred modes of interaction, as measured by the HIM-B, are related to a major spousal interaction variable, marital happiness. Specifically, it examines the potential of Hill's conceptual model, and instrument, for enhancing our understanding of marital interaction in combination with some…

The idea that familism is an important aspect of Mexican American family life is indirectly evaluated among Mexican American husbands and wives by examining the effects on marital satisfaction of three variables-family size, wife's labor force participation, and conjugal power. (Author)

Characterizes the relationship between family and school as educational agents during the nineteenth century. Based on personal-history documents, the article examines effects of social and economic change on family life, individual development, and school role. (AV)