Distinguishes five interpretations of sexual education including factual knowledge; self-control; stressing love; sexual training; and sexual morality. Suggests that sexual education should be understood as teaching children the moral tendencies relevant to sexual conduct. Argues that infantile sexual desire is based on a contradiction in terms…

Describes the influence of one father's advice about life and work on the unfolding career of an academic. Sketches the musings and doubts of an English professor about his career, his working environment, and his continuing relationship with his father. (HB)

Many deaf students become perennial "outsiders," never really becoming an integral part of their mainstream classrooms. Factors contributing to this may include family dynamics, teacher attitudes, and lack of interactions between deaf and hearing children. Parents can promote their child's integration, through accessing home, school, and community…

This research review on parents' role in identifying their young children's disabilities through screening and assessment focuses on the relationship between parent report and the child's tested performance, variables that may affect parent-professional agreement, the effect of such disagreement on the usefulness of parent reports, and how and…

Summarizes data from 1990 Current Population Survey supporting three general conclusions: (1) parental employment and children's poverty are linked in married-couple and female-headed families; (2) child poverty rates are insensitive to parental employment; (3) black-white differences in child poverty are not result of racial differences in…

Shows that role appropriation to the transition to parenthood is a three-part, overlapping process: expectations regarding roles, enactment of those roles, and negotiations about the roles. Shows that central dilemmas involve the accuracy/inaccuracy of role expectations, other's facilitation/inhibition of self's role enactment, and…

This study of social referencing in parent/child dyads found that 20 nondisabled children (ages 6-27 months) showed evidence of behavior regulation, touching positive-message toys more often than fearful-message toys, whereas a group of 20 children (ages 15-54 months) with developmental delays did not. (Author/JDD)

Describes a parent education program for parents of young children with behavioral difficulties. Objectives were to teach parents (1) the STAR (stop, think and ask, and respond) parenting technique; (2) strategies for dealing with behavior problems; and (3) the process of setting reasonable expectations. Parents rated the program highly. (GLR)

Examined relationship of biological and social fathers to young children's (n=870) well-being. Children in five longitudinal patterns of experiences with coresident adult men in maritally disrupted families were compared to children in intact families. Findings lend support to view that fathers, both biological and social, are peripheral to young…

Understanding and creating art can teach students to work cooperatively and strive to achieve goals. Parents can encourage students' participation in art by supporting community art programs and helping to decide how art will be taught in school. The paper describes how to plan and conduct art education PTA meetings. (SM)

Parents can share love and values with their children through story telling. Because parents know their children intimately, they can create stories that impact their children's developing minds most effectively. The article describes how to create a classic tale in less than 10 minutes. (SM)

This summary of an international conference on child abuse stresses the importance of the partnership between the state, as expressed by its various systems and structures, and parents in securing that all children have adequate and loving care and developmental opportunities. The paper cites statistics, notes public policy, and describes programs…

Examined effects of career-family orientation, hours worked per week, and salary level on parent-offspring closeness as perceived by offspring. Findings from 260 college students concerning their own parents' employment revealed that how close subjects felt toward their parents was directly related to their parents' family-versus-career…

Parents can encourage their children to communicate openly about difficult subjects if they learn to make themselves approachable and help their children turn their toughest feelings into words. The article identifies types of issues often kept hidden, then explains how to build skills and create an open environment. (SM)

Investigated the degree to which parents encouraged offspring to behave altruistically, using a sample of 197 12- to 18-year-old students from the laboratory school of the University of Northern Colorado. Mothers encouraged such behavior more than fathers, and expected daughters more often than sons to behave thus. (DM)