Designed to assist fieldworkers in constructing their own visual materials, this guide provides practical assistance for filmstrip production. The first of four sections presents step-by-step instructions for producing a polyvinyl filmstrip, including detailed directions for filmstrip construction, choice of materials, and hints for successful…

In this concluding part, article raises questions related to the rationale for black fears as a basis for black control and questions the efficacy of a movement directed toward an overall population limiting strategy visited upon poor and black people in America and in the Third World. (Author/RJ)

The paper examines the role of adult education and the contribution it can make to the solution of current problems in developing countries, particularly the problems of economic under-development and over-population. (Author/AG)

The article reports on a pilot program designed to provide simultaneously an effective education in family life planning and improved training in literacy skills for Turkish adults, carried out by a non-profit making American organization. Curriculum design, teaching methods, and material aids are included, with research results. (Author/AJ)

A tri-ethnic study of blacks, whites, and Chicanos was employed to determine the contributions of children to marital satisfaction and stability together with differences in fertility. These variables were found to be significantly related to ideal and expected family size. (Author)

This bulletin examines aspects of world literacy with regard to population projects and family planning. Discussion includes the presentation of perspectives, definitions, and statistics concerning literacy. The role of literacy in economic development is examined; specific topics include adult and school-age illiteracy, rural and urban…

Paper presented at the 33rd annual session of the Groves Conference on Marriage and the Family, Puerto Rico, April, 1967 and at the annual meeting of the Canadian sociological and anthropological association, Ottawa, June, 1967.

This report, which presents the results of a study of the effect on young people's lives by early family formation and especially entry into parenthood, is based on the National Longitudinal Study of the High School Class of 1972, a large national survey that has tracked over 22,000 young people who are now in their mid-twenties. Following a…

This report analyzes trends in childbearing among Kentucky's adolescents from 1970 through 1977 and reviews childbearing patterns in Kentucky and in the United States for adolescents aged 10-14 and 15-19 to identify several factors associated with adolescent pregnancy. The fact that adolescent women are reaching biological maturity at an earlier…

The Asian Women's Health Project undertook four activities to develop a model for delivery of family planning services to Asian and Pacific women: (1) a key informant survey was used to collect data from Asian and Pacific community, social, and health workers currently serving Asian and Pacific men and women; (2) an information and referral review…

This document is a bibliography of materials that present family planning in comprehensive programs for the alleviation of poverty and deprivation. It contains 141 entries. Some of the items describe projects or approaches in which family planning is combined with a single function such as midwifery. The other entries cover programs of varying…

The 274 citations presented were selected from family planning research studies completed between 1946 and 1972 using social, psychological, and communication variables. The entries are numbered consecutively, and methodological summaries following each reference cover (1) researcher and/or sponsoring agency, (2) independent variables, (3)…

Data from two research studies in Newfoundland, Canada are summarized. The first study examined divorced persons and their family patterns. It was found that numbers and timing of children did not affect marital stability, and neither did whether children were born before or during the current marriage. But whether the children were planned had a…

The current study addresses antecedent factors associated with the decision to parent vis-a-vis the decision to not parent. Three interrelated aspects of fertility attitudes and behaviors were examined: (1) the existence of family size norms; (2) the strength of social sanctions regarding family size preferences and; (3) the influence of other…