A social-psychological and historical context for understanding contemporary sex roles, fertility, parenting, and the family is provided by reviewing origins and objectives of the women's movement; feminist efforts to change social structures affecting women's choice of roles and fertility require continued attention. (Author)

Explains that adolescence is the process of "becoming" and suggests that anyone who spends time around teens participates in the crises of becoming. (Author/MP)

Differing views on the importance of bilingual education are presented. (LH)

Interviews with divorced parents who have joint custody indicate that some parents divide parenting responsibilities equally. Most exhibit a variety of shared parenting patterns, with differential involvement of the nonresidential parent. (Author/BEF)

Factors involved in the decision to place a learning disabled child in a mainstream or special class setting include the classroom situation (class size and teacher training); the child (behavior, academic ability, and social competence); and the parents. (CL)

The article describes the Learning Disabilities Clinic at Coney Island Hospital (New York) in which parents act as therapists for other learning disabled children and as cotherapists with their own children. (SBH)

Guardianship is an alternative conception and legal standard for the current parent-child relationship which reconciles the child's emergence as an individual and democratic citizen with the decreasing (though enduring) need for education, guidance, and support. (Author/GC)

Makes a case for educating both young and old people for sexuality, and advocates the development of a curriculum that explains child rearing in intellectual, emotional, sexual, and spiritual terms. (CM)

The parent's role in treatment of children's learning problems is discussed. A developmental view of causation based on Piagetian theory is presented, as well as a plan for parent workshops. (Author/SBH)

Adult male-child dyads of the United States, Ireland, Spain, Japan, and Mexico were examined at the proxemic level. Findings challenge the idea that American children are relatively more deprived of nurturing behavior from the father figure. American men do not interact with children much differently than men from other countries. (Author/BEF)

Contends that the basic reason for functional illiteracy is that as children, individuals did not develop the ability to meet the challenges required for reading and writing and that children can develop the ability to meet these challenges by having parents read to them at an early age. (FL)

Parenting a handicapped child can be perceived as an opportunity for personal growth. Given this orientation, the truly empathic counselor assists parents in learning the skills and attitudes needed to deal effectively with their child and to learn to transform their own pain into caring and love. (Author)

The author reviews the need for educational intervention with disadvantaged gifted children and cites her legislative actions in support of the issue. Note: An address by the Honorable Shirley Chisholm before the National Forum on Minority Disadvantaged Gifted and Talented (May 15, 1978). (CL)

Parents of exceptional children can and should be involved in educational planning and decision making concerning student evaluation and placement. (CL)

Suggests ways day care teachers can seek out and get help for the center from parents. (CM)