Notes that traditional health care focus on individual clients is being replaced by family as unit of analysis for education, service, and research. Sees family nurses at forefront of movement. Describes two perspectives on current practices in family nursing education and explores critical imperatives for the future. (Author/NB)

Tested two formats of remarriage educational program on cooperative extension agents. Agents (n=119) were randomly assigned to written format group, audiotape format group, or control group and were mailed pretest-posttest packets. Analysis of pretest-posttest scores for three groups indicated significant increase in scores for written format…

Conducted national survey concerning employees for home visiting programs that serve families with children. Results from 1,904 respondents representing Head Start, educational, social service, and health agencies showed that wide range of educational backgrounds was required for employment, but there was considerable similarity in personal…

Notes that students of divorced parents have become an important subculture within the schools and suggests that nontraditional eclectic group counseling can meet the needs of these students. Steps are suggested that counselors can follow in establishing a group for children of divorced parents. (Author/NB)

Studies of family life course often use hazard models to explain transition from one family status to another. Explains theoretical and methodological importance of hazard rates that change as function of time family is in given macro- or microlevel state. Examines how duration dependence is included in hazard models. (Author/NB)

Examined how family life education program affected prisoners' (n=54) narcissism and view of ideal family functioning. Data indicated prisoners were more narcissistic and perceived their family relationships as being more extreme than did test norms. Following participation in program, narcissism was significantly lower and perception of family…

School administrators, like politicians, ministers, and police officers, inevitably draw critics because they hold highly visible jobs. Their Achilles heel is their children, who frequently suffer physical and emotional abuse, unreasonable scrutiny, and even anxiety attacks resulting from controversial decisions reverberating through the…

Interviews with 94 adolescents and 141 adults aged 55-70 on 6 northern Minnesota reservations revealed that the average amount of time American Indian adolescents spent with parents or elders had declined from 62 hours per week in the 1930s to 12.5 hours per week in the 1980s. (SV)

Provides descriptions of 48 children's books which offer different perspectives on the ways children might define their sense of place: homes, moving, families, and special places. (SR)

Neil Jacobson is a leader in research-based efforts to improve behavioral couples therapy. This interview focuses on his professional journey toward an integrative model, as well as his thoughts about the future directions of behavioral therapy and family counseling. The integrative-couples therapy model is described and discussed. (Author/EMK)

Explores how family literacy practices are connected to social institutions that sustain or transform participants' awareness or reproduction of class identities and the inequities inherent in these interactions. Looks at the complexity of one African-American, working-poor family's literacy practices in their connections to social institutions.…

Examines four dimensions of family rituals that may be relevant to early intervention practice for young children with disabilities. These are family ritual structure, meaning, persistence, and adaptability. Strategies for assessing family rituals and designing interventions that support and facilitate ritual enactment are provided. (DB)

Female superintendents prize spouses who are emotionally secure and supportive and assist with household chores. Partners should communicate priorities, vacation together periodically, keep healthy, stay flexible, avoid guilt, establish family rituals, stay in frequent contact, respect each others' roles, and not strive for perfect balance. (MLH)

Increasing numbers of adolescents are disclosing their sexual orientation to parents at an earlier stage of the family life cycle than their predecessors. Although we know that parents are coexperiencing the range of difficulties reflected in reports of gay and lesbian youths after disclosure, there is a paucity of investigative research exploring…

This analysis uses nationally representative time diary data from 1965, 1975 and 1998 to examine trends and gender differences in time use. Women continue to do more household labor than men; however, men have substantially increased time in core household activities such as cooking, cleaning and daily child care. Nonetheless, a 30-minute-per-day…