Used vital statistics data and census data to examine impact of women's marriage opportunities on family formation and dissolution. Linked measures of quantity/quality of potential spouses specific for woman's age, race, education, and area of residence to marriage, divorce, and nonmarital fertility rates. Greater marriage opportunities appear to…

Asserts that teaching about families from feminist perspective is likely to result in more effective family life education than teaching from more traditional perspectives. Uses three core feminist assumptions to examine contributions of feminist perspectives to content and methods of, and participants in, family life education. Concludes that…

Offers critical theory of self-formation for consideration of family life and teacher educators who are concerned about supporting families in their everyday challenges with indiscriminate use of instrumental/technical models. Provides narrative account of the emergence of this theory, then presents theory itself. (Author/NB)

Examined family dynamics associated with family happiness for biological fathers, stepfathers, and adolescents in 48 European-American gay stepfamilies using modified Stepfamily Adjustment Scale. For all three family members, family happiness was more highly related to stepfather inclusion in family and to positive steprelationship than to…

Examines the use of the Hassidic Yahrzeit observance as a model for new family rituals designed to incorporate repressed material into ongoing memories of deceased loved ones. The observance allows for overt recognition of positive as well as negative recollections and emotions and does so with flexible practices in a fixed time frame. (Author/MKA)

This essay argues that family life practitioners can respond to changes in technology brought on by the Internet and the World Wide Web by integrating three complimentary strategies into their work. They can focus on information management with their clients; support their efforts to transform information into useful knowledge; and use the Web as…

A path model was utilized to determine the relationship of demographic, family system, adolescent perceptions of parental behavior, and youth characteristics to adolescent substance abuse. Self-report questionnaire data were collected from 214 high school students at two high schools in a southwestern state. Results showed direct positive…

Early childhood special education (ECSE) (Part B/619) services are intended to enhance the cognitive, social, and behavioral development of children with disabilities by meeting the needs of children with a disability and their family. Little is known, however, about the relationship between ECSE services and early school performance. How ECSE…

In recent times, actor, comedian, and educator, Bill Cosby sparked a national debate over the role of poor black families in raising their children. Additionally, scholars including Reginald Clark, Annette Lareau, John Ogbu, Javier Tapia, James Comer, and William A. Sampson have done research that suggests that many poor black and Latino families…

Despite a large body of research on the influences of religion on family life and gender ideology, few studies examined how religion affects work-family strategies. One set of strategies involves making employment or family trade-off--strategies of devoting time or attention to either work or family in a situation in which one cannot devote the…

Forty-four family-oriented, prime time television program episodes (30 hours) aired in November and December 1982 were selected for content analysis from 12 commercial television series which met selection criteria for Neilsen Television rating, airing time, and theme. Family oriented programming was defined as any series with a primary theme that…

Reviews literature on family therapy training and supervision. Four focal developments are highlighted: school-specific models, training modalities, integrative approaches to training and supervision, and developmental perspectives. Suggestions for future growth and development of this specialty area are proposed. Contains 281 references. (JBJ)

The purpose of this article is to illustrate how theory and particularly the theoretical perspective of social constructionism can influence the ways in which scholars conduct qualitative research studies in the area of family systems. The authors argue for the importance of theory in qualitative research projects and promote researchers' clear…

This study extends the growing literature of family instability by investigating the significance of its timing for children's social adjustment. We find that more than a third of the 1,364 elementary school children in the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development experienced some family structure change. Their cumulative level of…

The purpose of this study is to describe the parental burden in families with a food-allergic child under the age of four. This study was carried out using a descriptive correlational research design. The subjects of this study were 104 families with a young food-allergic child who observed a restricted diet. The majority of the children were…