Investigates the roles and problems of siblings of incest victims, describes the dynamics of the incestuous family, and identifies some behavior problems of children whose siblings were incest victims. Data from two siblings' lives are presented to illustrate points. (Author/DB)

Presents 19 guidelines for developing children's comprehension skills, addressed to elementary teachers and to parents of preschoolers (53 references). (SJL)

Describes the individual consequences of family transitions. Suggests transitions, especially transitions out of marriage, are experienced as challenging and perhaps unpleasant. Widowhood was less consequential than expected. Changes in parental status had only trivial effects. Family transitions were found to affect individual evaluations of…

Parents' child-rearing sex-role attitudes were investigated to determine their relationship to social issue sex-role attitudes. Parents' sex and child caretaker choice were related to both social issue and child-rearing sex-role attitudes. Income, employment status, and family unit type appeared to have less influence. (CT)

Answers to two parents and a gifted fourth grader are given by two educators on questions of peer acceptance, a three-year-old who is reading, and communication skills. (CL)

Outlines the content, method, and initial evaluation of a two-day workshop designed to teach basic reading monitoring skills to parents. (HTH)

Letters from 249 children, 7 to 17 years of age, on "Why my Mom is the greatest" were analyzed for age and sex differences in the maternal behaviors selected for positive evaluation. (Author/MP)

Describes the transitional nature of child custody decisions in current legal decisions, and the shifting emhasis from parental to child's rights. The legal structure of joint custody is based on the child's right and need for conjoint parental accessibility. (Author)

Assesses the changing social fabric theory of adolescence. (RH)

Reviews research on the father-infant relationship and emphasizes the role of the father as caregiver and playmate. Discusses adolescent fathers' roles in their infants' cognitive and socioemotional development. Outlines the nature of support systems that may help adolescent fathers to more adequately perform their parental role. (Author/GC)

Based on a study of 231 families, it is held that when the amount of time fathers have available to spend with their children is considered, fathers' involvement with their children is equal to that of mothers'. (Authors/GC)

Describes a series of group meetings for prospective adoptive couples in which participants explored issues related to rearing adopted children with special needs. Results of informal evaluation by participants are reported. (RH)

The article presents a three module training course to help parents of handicapped children participate effectively in individualized education program (IEP) meetings. (CL)

Discusses political action by and on behalf of parents. Suggests ways that existing interest group theory can further our understanding of how parents' interest is or is not represented in educational policy making. (Author/GC)

One hundred deaf children with deaf parents performed significantly better than 100 deaf children with hearing parents on all performance subtest of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised. (CL)