It is suggested that home economics ought to take the lead in the development of a holistic research methodology. The challenges to cooperative research approaches are presented, along with an explanation of the potential benefits and rewards. (Author/CT)

Conducted (N=36) interviews with homemakers whose husbands recently retired from a number of occupations. Investigated positive and negative aspects of retirement and a range of variables associated with life satisfaction and three domains of satisfaction. Found the most consistent correlate of wife's satisfaction was husband's participation in…

Computer technology as it affects home and family life is explored. Elements of this technology which are examined include electronic fund transfers (EFT), consumer rights and responsibilities relating to use of EFT, working at home via computer, housing design, costs of computerizing the home, and computerized aids for the handicapped. (CT)

Teacher-educators interested in preparing family life educators for secondary school systems of Indiana formed a task force to devise certification requirements for family life educators. After ten years a program including course work in human development, the family, human sexuality, and educational material and methods was devised. (BEF)

Lamaze childbirth training was found to have no significant effects on attitudes towards spouse or child. It did have a significant anxiety-reducing effect with respect to childbirth. Parents using the Lamaze method had a more positive attitude about having a baby. (Author/CS)

The author discusses the rationale for death and loss education and its place in the home economics curriculum. Curriculum units, strategies for course development and approval, and possible problems are also covered. (SK)

The author pleads the cause of promoting literacy among women, and suggests fresh approaches and new strategies for strengthening the economic and productive role of women and effectively linking it with the educational effort. There is need for action in the economic and social emancipation of women in India. (CT)

Increasingly, appeals to the divorce statistic are employed to substantiate claims that the family is in a state of breakdown and marriage is passe. This article contains a consideration of reasons why the divorce statistics are invalid and/or unreliable as indicators of the present state of marriage and family. (Author)

Survey findings suggest that a 1973 resolution made by the New Jersey State Board of Education, designed to promote a more comprehensive approach to health education in the schools, has not been uniformly implemented. (CJ)

Explores the conditions existing within constant television households--homes in which television is turned on for most of the day, whether or not anyone is watching. (PD)

The article presents suggestions to assist parents of learning disabled (LD) children in modifying the home situaton so that the child can function as smoothly as possible within the family. (DLS)

Assessed factors influencing the developmental trajectories of young children at risk for harm to themselves and others. Information from offender profiles, research review, school data, and interviews with or surveys of parents, offenders, social service providers, and probation officers indicated that young offenders and their families received…

Explores how relations between grandparents and grandchildren are contingent upon a matrix of intergenerational relationships. Findings indicated multiple dimensions of grandparents' involvement with grandchildren to be associated with grandparents relationship with their own grandparents; grandparent's perception of closeness with grandchild; and…

Participants in cooperative extension family life programs (N=916) identified family strains, coping, quality of life, self-esteem, stress, and willingness to support extension services with tax dollars. The resulting normative data can be used to measure the impact of cooperative extension programs. (SK)

Study explored relationship between family environment and adolescent coping in Chinese sample. Chinese adolescents tended to mobilize personal resources, seek help from social resources, and adopt a philosophy of doing nothing as their major coping style when they had a positive perception of their family environment. Girls relied more on social…