The role of parents in promoting affective development and interpersonal competence in gifted and talented children is probed. (CL)

Presents teaching strategies for parents to use when dealing with aggression during neighborhood or playgroup interactions. Includes suggestions for being prepared for events that take place during various types of play, informing children that family rules will be enforced, playing the role of mediator during conflicts, and allowing application…

Examined inmate mothers' (N=120) attitudes about parenting behaviors and compared them to those of matched noncriminal mothers (N=120). Findings suggest that incarcerated mothers are as acculturated into parenting role as are noncriminal mothers. Incarcerated mothers felt very strongly about importance of mothers loving their children and guiding…

Examined family characteristics and parenting experiences of long-term prisoners. Majority of 115 respondents, whether single or married, were fathers of minor children, and their parenting experiences were largely prison-based. Most did not see their children often but wanted to improve parenting skills. Findings support efforts to address…

Discusses relationship between family structure and achievement of adolescent developmental task of separation-individuation. Views adolescent separation-individuation as continuum. Suggests that successful accomplishment of separation-individuation is affected by such factors as conflict, parental relationship, and accomplishment of previous…

Parent education and support programs designed specifically for fathers are one way to prepare men to meet the changing expectations for paternal involvement. (JOW)

Examines how social and economic changes that have taken place in America since 1900 have affected fatherhood. Suggests that the ideologies surrounding men's parenting has changed, but that fathers' behavior toward their children has not changed significantly. Considers consequences of asynchrony between culture and conduct of fatherhood to be…

Defines and discusses advantages of parenting coalitions when children have contact with both of their parents after divorce and remarriage. Outlines developmental sequence leading to such coalitions and describes common obstacles encountered by the adults. Major focus is on therapeutic interventions which can help adults form parenting…

Still scarce, research findings on adolescent fathers reveal that many are trapped by limited education, family instability, and judgmental behavior of families, schools, and agencies. They have multiple anxieties and concerns and lack ability to cope psychologically and emotionally with their children. More attention to their needs in research…

An organizer of a support program for fathers of children with disabilities discusses the father's role in the family, myths surrounding the father's role, coping with the extra stresses in families with disabled children, and emotional adjustment to the disability. (DB)

Describes counseling intervention system specific to "tough beat" crisis management. Describes "tough beat" as situation in which child suddenly behaves in way dramatically different from expected pattern. Notes difficulties parents have in responding to such situations and presents 10-step intervention plan for counselors. (NB)

Examined observed father-infant interaction and reports of parental responsibility during infancy in 54 dual-earner and 65 single-earner families. Results indicated that personality characteristics of the father were important in predicting father's responsibility for child care in single-earner families, not in dual-earner families. Contextual…

Tested whether there is social consensus about how stepparents should and will parent and whether stepparent roles are perceived as similar to biological and adoptive parent roles. College students (n=240) thought that stepparents were less obligated and less likely than biological and adoptive parents to engage in supportive parental behaviors…

Presents theory to explain why fathers remove themselves from children's lives after divorce. Bases theory on potential for change in salience of man's identity as father postdivorce. Propositions and hypotheses are derived from symbolic interaction and identity theories. Defines and interrelates concepts of identity, saliency, commitment, and…

Interviewed 32 members from fathers' rights groups about postdivorce parenting experiences, troubles with family law practices, and posturing on fathers' rights platform. Fathers presented uniform voice in support of fathers' rights' public image of caring fathers who want men to be recognized as fathers and who are requesting equitable treatment…