Compared conflict resolution in male (N=130) and female (N=158) Quaker adults to the national study on family violence. Results generally showed no differences in the violence rates; however, Quaker fathers reported more acts of overall violence toward their children and Quaker sibling violence was higher than the national sample. (LLL)

This paper is an attempt to develop a strategy for career counselors and researchers to organize data on the influences of the family of origin on the career decision-making process. Utilizing new approaches, counselors can deepen their clients' career planning process by assisting them in comprehending how family background, upbringing, support,…

This first publication in the "Who's Raising the Family" series covers the critical issue of family communications and how parents and adolescents can talk and listen to each other about alcohol and other drugs (AOD). Communication between parents and children is crucial in preventing alcohol and other drug use. While peer relationships take on…

The Family Resource Coalition of America (FRCA) and the National Resource Center for Family Centered Practice convened a meeting of evaluators, policymakers, and program practitioners to discuss the issue of evaluation in the field of family support. The goal was to bring together those who were implementing programs, evaluating programs, and…

The concept that joint family households will prove a barrier to the emergence of conjugal role patterns was tested for a sample in Dharwar, India. It was found that living with close kin was not highly correlated with a major increase in husband and wife avoiding one another. Urbanization and education, however, both seem to lead to changes in…

Investigates the influence on ego's attitudes toward his familial roles of husband and father and his nonfamilial role of student by the validation of those roles by his significant others. (Author)

This article discusses a method of teaching and learning in which the family is used as a paradigm, providing the prototype for subsequent relationships. It is hypothesized that if the dynamics of familial relations are understood, it should be possible to perceive analogous dynamics at work in other relationships. (Author/RWP)

Family triads (44) were observed to assess dominance and conflict patterns. Evaluation results indicated that the middle class adolescent accrues influence at the expense of the mother whereas the lower class adolescent does so at the expense of the father. (ST)

How a high school teacher helps students develop a sense of appreciation and understanding of the other generations'' through a study of their family trees. (Editor/SP)

A survey of 31 states indicated that only 4 had specialists and well-defined directives and objectives concerned especially with basic extension programming for senior citizens. (AN)

Burden of unemployment shifted from male household heads to female and teenage family members during the 1962-71 period. (MF)

Special issue dedicated to Gustavo Adolfo Becquer. (DS)

It was hypothesized that the more equalitarian the conjugal power structure in a noncrisis situation, the more likely the relative marital power will change during a crisis. This was tested using an observational experimental method, and the hypothesis was supported. (Author/CG)