The article centers on the need for home and school to develop mutual exchanges concerned with what is best for the child rather than being in an adversary relationship. (CD)

Describes the ways in which the New York State Special Education Instructional Materials Center has become a major force in improving education for handicapped children in the state, with special reference to parent education and participation programs. (ED)

Until government policy puts greater emphasis on changing the social and economic factors that contribute so massively to family problems, our social programs will remain directed at healing wounds, not preventing them. More resources of money and authority are needed to strengthen parents' abilities to do their jobs. (Author/EB)

There were two crucial transitions in the definition of sex roles for the Protestant middle class: the first associated with the rise of Protestantism and commercial capitalism in sixteenth and seventeenth century England, and the second with the rise of romantic evangelical Protestantism and industrialism in the eighteenth and nineteenth…

Findings show that high school males are more sexist than females; and blacks, more so that whites. Women who are bright, from upper class backgrounds, and whose mothers work are more egalitarian in sex role conceptions. Unlike women, men's sex role attitudes have little connection to their family background. (Author/MV)

An overview of the articles in this issue is given. The stages of life prior to adulthood are viewed as developmental, that is, as growth phases which determine the outcome of adulthood. (Author/AM)

This paper explores the origins of tensions between families and schools and argues that one must learn to distinguish between positive and negative forms of dissonance. In addition, it looks at the special role of women as central figures in the socialization process. (Author/AM)

Questionnaires completed by 200 parents of primary grade hearing impaired children indicated that approximately 50 percent had experienced difficulty and prolonged delay in referral for diagnosis. (Author/CL)

Recent trends in childrearing, work, and welfare are described, revealing a basic change in the division of labor among parents. This is interpreted as a "role-shift gap" that generates pressure on the state to subsidize child care. Specific interrelationships between childrearing, work, and welfare are examined. (Author/MA)

The school-related problems discussed in this article cover three major areas: disruptive behaviors in the classroom; academic behaviors in the classroom and at home; and school attendance as related to both truancy and school phobias. (Author/AM)

This article summarizes a few of the areas of Public Law 94-142, the Education for All Handicapped Children Act, which are of special concern to parents. (SBH)

Briefly describes a survey of the specific tasks and demands of foster care for handicapped children undertaken to provide a basis for selecting foster parents and matching them with handicapped children. (BR)