Summarizes literature about fatherhood in the United States today and various resources available to those who work with fathers and families. Topics covered include summary of fathering literature across the family life cycle; implications for family and public social policy, and fathering resources. Fathering resources discussed are book,…

Describes the family life education program developed for the North Medford (OR) High School. (JOW)

The participation by farm women in on-farm and off-farm work is estimated and the effects of female earnings on farm family income are measured. It is shown that farm women make significant contributions to income and help manage income instability. (Author/CH)

Discusses possible stressors and enhancers of marital and family life for the family therapist. The results are examined in terms of respondents' gender, work setting, theoretical orientation, number of hours worked, income, age, and marital status. (Author/BL)

The SEFAM Program (Supporting Extended Family Members) in Settle, WA, has organized workshops for grandparents of handicapped children. Questionnaire responses of 21 workshop participants touch upon their initial reaction to the handicaps, their needs, their contributions, and the supports available to them. (CL)

Using family life stages, life span careers by stages are constructed for several empirically distinct types of single-parent families. The paths of divorced, widowed, and remarried women depart in distinctive ways from the cental highway of model two-parent families in timing and duration of family stages over the life span. (Author/BL)

Discusses the Social Relations Model (Kenny and LaVoie, 1984), which allows one to partition social interaction into component parts. Family interaction data are reanalyzed using the model, and the subtle influence of partners on the behavior of actors is highlighted. The strengths and limitations of the model are discussed. (JAC)

Calls for recognition of the social and educational factors that perpetuate technical approaches in education, for the need to revise our own perspective of families within critical and interpretive modes, and for the need to clarify the role of family studies within general education. (JOW)

Examines the rationale for family studies education, the state of the discipline in school curricula today, and possible future directions educators might consider when planning new family studies courses. (NRJ)

For eight years, the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) has been engaged in surveying the attitudes of teens and those who most influence them--parents, teachers and school principals. While other surveys seek to measure the extent of substance abuse in the population, the CASA survey probes substance-abuse risk and identifies…

This paper suggests a reexamination of governmental involvement, and after a careful analysis of pertinent research on marriage and family support systems, proposes the creation of a cabinet-status U.S. Department of Marriage and the Family. The historical background, rationale, constitutionality, and political opportuneness of the proposed…

Principal axis factor analysis with varimax rotations of data for 149 wives and 157 husbands indicated that the instrument is an internally consistent measure of marital adjustment, and that this general aspect consists of two separate components--sexual congeniality and compatibility. (Author)

This article describes some family images and approaches to problems found in some of television's daytime soap operas'' and raises the question of whether viewers would choose to follow fantasy each day if given other options. (Author)

The findings of this study on adults' attitudes towards the business of teaching about sex to children are consistent with other data found in previous studies with many other groups of people: Nearly everybody expresses a positive attitude toward the concept of sex education and would send their children to such classes. (Author)

Home Start programs, designed to provide child development services to children in their homes, are located in 15 states. (DS)