Reported was a home-based intervention program serving 75 preschool multiply handicapped children (aged 0-6 years) living in a rural area. (Author/GW)

First, what parents do with their young children does influence child intellectual performance; second, we cannot categorize any group of parents; third, many parents are now doing the right thing"; fourth, parent education is a reasonable effort. (Author)

A novel approach that conceptualizes and measures a theoretically derived set of parental role components, considers their interrelations, and examines some of their attitude and personality correlates. (This study was supported by Purdue University and by NICHHD under a research grant to Educational Testing Service.) (Author/DR)

Author emphasizes the need for parent participation in early childhood education as vital to child development. (MB)

This very extensive review covers such areas as parental attitudes and behavior, sex differences in regard to parental influence, parental identification, father absence and effects of divorce or separation, emotional problems, delinquency, health, generational differences and international research. (CJ)

Parents of severely retarded children were successfully taught to use the precision teaching technique of recording frequency of behavior on Standard Behavior Charts as a tool in their projects to modify selected behaviors of their children. (KW)

Father-absent and father-present seveth graders were compared on moral attributes and overt aggression. Some evidence suggests that some but not all of the effects of father absence are attributable to the lack of a paternal model. Effects may be mediated in part by changes in the mother's child-rearing pattern. (NH)