The authors discuss trends in middle-aged adults' households, emphasizing phenomenon of adult children and elderly parents living with the "sandwiched" generation. Implications for home economists are presented. (CH)

Evaluation of a program teaching parents to monitor their hearing-impaired preschoolers' hearing aids (through daily visual, listening, and electroacoustic checks) indicated that the proportion of undetected malfunctionings declined; that parents' knowledge of hearing aids increased; and that the aids most frequently failed checks of battery power…

A husband and wife's self-described difficulties illustrate the complex effects of living with a special needs child on marital relationships and on communication between parents and professionals. Practical solutions included obtaining child care help and meeting with the family pediatrician to coordinate information and records from a variety of…

Reviews literature focusing on six aspects of pet-person relationships that are most relevant to the growing child. Areas include love, attachment, and comfort; sensorimotor and nonverbal learning; responsibility, nurturance, and competence; learning about the life cycle; therapeutic benefits; and nurturing humaness, ecological awareness, and…

Used constant comparative analysis to examine written summaries of stresses encountered by 58 mothers and 54 fathers at the third to fifth postpartum months. Four categories of stress emerged: demands of parent, spouse, and worker roles; infant care; interactions with spouse; and interactions with other family members. (Author/NB)

Describes two types of feedback (explicit and implicit) in the responses of four mothers to their two-year-old children and investigates whether these mothers respond differentiallly to their children's well-formed and ill-formed utterances with either type of feedback. Results demonstrate that a high proportion of maternal responses qualify as…

Presents results of two case studies in which parents served as cotherapists in a social cognitive problem-solving program: a 9-year-old boy referred for distractibility, immaturity, and impulsivity, and an 8-year-old boy referred for aggressive behaviors. (Author/NRB)

Male and female trainees in family therapy saw 22 intact 2-parent families with referred adolescents. Mothers, fathers, adolescents, and therapists were rated for verbal expression in affective, behavioral, and cognitive/attributional modes. Results suggest that therapist gender has impact on family therapists' and family members' verbalizations…

The importance of a career education curriculum beginning in elementary school for moderately mentally disabled students is stressed, and the roles of parents, special educators, and employers in developing and planning such an approach are considered. (CL)

Case studies of Puerto Rican, Haitian, and Chinese families are used to illustrate how schools can involve parents of limited English speaking learning disabled students to provide home reinforcers of language skill development. (DB)

The article discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the language experience approach and the basal reader approach to reading instruction for hearing impaired students. Suggestions are offered to parents regarding evaluating the effectiveness of their child's reading program. (CL)

Presents a broad range of statistical data on the welfare of White adolescents, ages 16 and 17. Focuses on poverty, family, the school, government programs, academic performance, moral character, and health. Reports that adolescent welfare has declined in every area since 1960 and discusses the implications for social scientists and policymakers.…

Reviews the literature linking four features of family structure to depression and maladjustment in adolescents and young adults: (a) parent-child overinvolvement, (b) parent-child role reversal, (c) marital instability, and (d) parent-child coalitions. Implications for the assessment and treatment of depressed college students are discussed.…

Adults, especially parents and teachers, must show willingness to take responsibility for the world and thus generate firm faith in students, a hope and faith that life is worth living and the world is worth saving. Such hope and faith call for life commitment and work. (RM)

Discusses the issue of increasing the confidence and competency in minority parents' strategies for helping their children with handicaps to grow and develop. Also describes the procedures for implementing proper education and training of parents in order to help them utilize proper strategies and to generate expertise for effective parenting.…