Author emphasizes the need for parent participation in early childhood education as vital to child development. (MB)

This very extensive review covers such areas as parental attitudes and behavior, sex differences in regard to parental influence, parental identification, father absence and effects of divorce or separation, emotional problems, delinquency, health, generational differences and international research. (CJ)

Parents of severely retarded children were successfully taught to use the precision teaching technique of recording frequency of behavior on Standard Behavior Charts as a tool in their projects to modify selected behaviors of their children. (KW)

Father-absent and father-present seveth graders were compared on moral attributes and overt aggression. Some evidence suggests that some but not all of the effects of father absence are attributable to the lack of a paternal model. Effects may be mediated in part by changes in the mother's child-rearing pattern. (NH)

Reports a study of the similarities and differences between individuals presently farming and those who have left farming in Wisconsin. Study is based on Virgil Martinson's 1970 Ph.D. dissertation. (SB)

Examines the process of termination from the stand point of the parents of the child who is ending treatment, pointing out some inevitable consequences of termination which the parents need to be aware of. This paper was presented at the annual meeting of the American Orthopsychiatric Association at New York, N.Y., April 1, 1969. (MG)

This paper defines and explains foster care as it relates to the foster father and his special problems, attempting to differentiate foster fatherhood from ordinary fatherhood, and to suggest important qualities of the interaction between foster fathers and their professional casework supervisors. (Author)

New methods, techniques, and philosophies may be necessary to revitalize education for handicapped children in the coming decade. (CK)

Requiring pupils to enroll in physical education presents educators with two problems: (1) students' rights regarding required subjects, and (2) power of the board of education to specify certain courses as required. This article points out some court decisions and alternatives of pupils and school personnel regarding required physical education…

Provides several practical suggestions to help counselors encourage parents to develop an invitational approach to family living. Suggests these ideas can be used by counselor-consultants in individual conferences with parents or in parent education programs. (RC)