Examined the role of parent/home and school variables in predicting the apprehension of college students. Home and school, when taken together, accounted for significantly more of the apprehension than either one did individually, although school effects were stronger than home effects. (PD)

Examines the determinants of occupational and educational aspirations and expectations of adolescents. Dependent variables considered in the study included parents' occupational status and education, and students' grade level, sex, ethnicity, reading level, and knowledge of the work world. (Author/MW)

Examines various explanations for the lack of reading problems in Japan, including the nature of the Japanese written language, the interest of Japanese parents in teaching young children to read, the different perceptual processes involved in reading Japanese, and the quantity of Japanese publications suitable for preschool children. (FL)

Presents longitudinal data regarding detrimental effects through 36 months of age on intellectual, behavioral, and social-interactional development in a nonsupportive caregiving environment, and the continuing amelioration of those effects in a supportive caregiving environment. Suggests that mothers of fetally malnourished infants may have had…

Parents are urged to provide a superior education for their preschool children by encouraging the development of the first language in the home and by teaching the young child to read in at least one of his languages before going to school. (PMJ)

Time inputs to children are measured using data from a recent time-use survey. Time parents devote to their children, particularly in preschool years, is analyzed in an attempt to find out if there are social-class and education-of-wife differentials which affect the intergenerational transmission of income inequality. (CT/Author)

This article describes a procedure for group discussion between parents and adolescents on matters of human sexuality. (DB)

Presents a conceptual framework for the family's reorganization after a divorce, viewed as a crisis of family transition. Social workers must be prepared to help a couple with the complex process of terminating spousal roles but continuing and redefining parental roles, which is central to family redefinition. (Author)

The chronically reconstituting family is a normal and appropriate variation to the traditional pattern. Those processes characteristic of the chronically reconstituting family entail significant psychological and social consequences. Careful evaluation of those norms and values that contribute to this process must be the concern of all clinicians.…

Suggests that workers focus on strengthening parents' feelings of competence as a positive, stress-reducing approach to the reparenting role. Also analyzes the various responsibilities of the workers as nurturers-cum-educators and describes techniques that can be used in reparenting. (Author)

The research of the 1970s reflects a move away from a unidirectional model toward a reciprocal model of causality. The importance of studying a broader context of interaction than mothers and children or fathers and children in isolation has been emphasized repeatedly. (Author)

The decade of the 70s saw more husbands in samples, more attention to couples, use of observational data collection techniques, greater attention to methodological and measurement issues, biases in the portrayal of sex roles, attempts to build theory and synthesize the literature, growing interest in "dyads," and more international research.…

Parents who were engaged in farming as an occupation felt that they provided their sons and daughters greater assistance in developing and conducting supervised occupational experience than parents who were engaged in either agribusiness or nonagricultural occupations. (LRA)

Parents, like teachers, must make every effort to create environments that are physically, socially, and emotionally conducive to self-exploration and communication. Schools should be more responsive to parents and more willing to provide nonacademic services and information to the family. (JAC)

The concept of family members assuming buying roles in various purchasing decisions is applied to parents and students in the college choice process. Prospective students (high school seniors) and their parents were surveyed in Milwaukee; the results and their implications for college marketing are discussed. (MSE)