Proposes the development of an adult education literacy and family planning pilot project in India, which has a total population of more than 600 million. (ABM)

The university health center and counseling center combined efforts to create a campuswide sex education program that included seminars, appropriate physical examinations, and personal peer counseling. The program includes an evaluation component that has provided continuous data to be used for program reconstruction. (LA)

Longitudinal data, comparing couples who had a child with those who did not, showed related changes in questionnaire measures of "marriage satisfaction." The clearest finding was that women who have a child become more likely to report that their husbands are not paying enough attention to them. (Author)

The author contends that students must be alerted to the dangers of overpopulation of the world and to the methods that exist to control population growth. He suggests topics for student inquiry. (CK)

A description of the 1970 Hayward Study of Attitudes toward family planning and population control among undergraduates, unmarried students at California State College, Hayward. Discussion of the need to persuade people to have fewer children and the future direction of population control policies also presented. (LK)

Examined myths and stereotypes associated with the sexual and reproductive behavior of the urban poor, particularly poor White, Black, and Mexican-American women. Through extensive analysis of differences in family planning and fertility patterns, conclusions were reached about the relationship between sexual stereotypes, family social services,…

A family life education program for adolescents in Oaxaca, Mexico is described. Effects of the program, which used a values clarification approach, are discussed. (CJ)

Proposes the creation of regional information centers and library networks to provide information on family planning to developing nations. (FM)

The authors cite some motivations for parenthood and preferences for family size which are operative in various world cultures. They suggest that social policies designed to limit population growth must account for these cultural norms. Condensed and reprinted from "East-West Perspectives," Winter 1979-80, pp21-25. (SJL)

Studies attitudes toward childlessness using questions commissioned on a Gallup survey of voting-age adults in 1977. They regard offspring as socially instrumental. Nonparenthood is a disadvantaged status. Men regard childlessness as disadvantageous significantly more often than women. Less advantaged groups regard reproduction as a social…

The three articles in this collection discuss secular trends and changes in (1) human stature, weight, and maturation, (2) body proportions and composition, and (3) size and maturity. (CM)