SOCIAL CHANGES ARE REFLECTED IN FAMILY LIFE. IN PLANNING A PROGRAM AIMED AT IMPROVING FAMILY LIVING, IT IS IMPERATIVE TO CONSIDER THE EFFECTS OF CHANGES. FAMILIES HAVE MOVED OFF THE FARM, HAVE MOVED FROM PRODUCTION TO CONSUMPTION, HAVE SHIFTED FROM AN ECONOMY OF SCARCITY TO AN ECONOMY OF ABUNDANCE, HAVE BECOME SMALLER, WORK LESS AND LIVE BETTER,…

This is the description of a course designed to enable the student to develop realistic expectations of the marriage commitment in terms of his personal values and goals. Students analyze typical marital adjustment, examine possible courses of action and determine their impact on family harmony. Topics include realistic attitudes toward marriage,…

Sex role, professionalism, multiple functions, and inter-disciplinary conflicts are the major role problems depicted in this paper. The author concludes with a summary of the problems and suggestions for coping with them. (Author)

The evolution of home work and the growth of home-working families carry important consequences for work and family life in late 20th-century America. (JOW)

Presents tabulations for remarried couple households in the June 1980 Current Population Survey. Found that in 20 percent of households maintained by married couples at least one spouse had been divorced; one-sixth of U.S. children under age 18 lived in such households. (NRB)

Tomorrow's computerized home will be more than a residence; it will be servant, counselor, and friend to each member of the family. A typical day living in this house of the future is described. (RM)

Because individual home and religious training fall short with the majority of children, the responsibility for sex education must be assumed by the schools. (LR)

It is apparent that many adults do not want the job of parenthood, yet they are socially pressured to have children. (MM)

Examined whether differences exist in participation in life activities, interaction with family members, and spousal conflict, by amount of time fathers spend using home computers. Findings indicated there were significant differences among fathers by amount of time fathers spent using home computers on 5 of 13 life activities, interaction with…

Uses research on remarried kinship networks to discuss functional and dysfunctional patterns of inclusion or exclusion of potential family members at levels of immediate stepfamily, binuclear family, and remarried family suprasystem. Suggests association between coparent relationship style and expanded or contracted kinship patterns. Examples from…

Notes there are many concepts connected to term "family." Sees concepts as different from one another and notes many are unclear. Uses term "dyad" to sort differences to provide greater understanding. To demonstrate how dyadic approach can successfully be used, presents illustrative data from legislation as well as from…

Documents growing diversities among families and households throughout Western societies. Rejects prevailing conceptual approach of distinguishing between family and alternative lifestyles. Draws on new action theory to present model for conceptualizing contemporary families. Notes four kinds of interdependencies that give rise to perceptions of…

Develops theme of rethinking family as social form by positing overall approach that suggests development of various specific definitions of "family," each suitable for empirical or theoretical exploration of set of family issues. Development of one example, familial caretaking, definition of family for use in context of social policy, is provided…

Explores geometry of widely used family typologies and derives multidimensional model the geometry of which is equivalent to, but more succinctly captures, underlying structure of variation in family paradigms. Resulting model is then interpreted and explored in terms of implications for family theory, theory construction, and family therapy.…

Addresses design and evaluation issues of community-based programs for families experiencing marital separation and divorce. Reviews and discusses general programmatic issues; presents specific community-based program, The Orientation for Divorcing Parents; details evaluation of this program; and discusses implications of this literature review…