Describes an international program CHILD-to-child, which is designed to teach and encourage older children of developing nations to take a role in caring for and improving the health and development of their younger brothers and sisters. (Author/BB)

Questions whether parents are allowing economic demands to dictate the development of children by demanding a level of maturity from them that they are physically, emotionally, and intellectually incapable of delivering. The changing economic and cultural context of families suggests a shift from child-oriented toward adult-oriented lifestyles for…

A study investigates the relationship between an activity-centered health program and positive health attitudes, future use of cigarettes, and changes in smoking behavior of parents. Results show that the experimental group posessed more positive health attitudes, and parents reported favorable changes in their own smoking behaviors. (Author/DF)

Article describes the need for children to have the opportunity to gain a quality education, which will provide them with greater feelings of humanism rather than with the more limited virtues of academic development. (RK)

American social and legal procedures in dealing with children often result not in nurture and protection, but in curtailing of children's rights and arbitrary commitment to institutions." (Editor)

The authors cite some motivations for parenthood and preferences for family size which are operative in various world cultures. They suggest that social policies designed to limit population growth must account for these cultural norms. Condensed and reprinted from "East-West Perspectives," Winter 1979-80, pp21-25. (SJL)

Gives her perception of the current state of children's education and how it might be improved. (Author/AM)

Maintains that early childhood teachers should seek to provide young children with a synthesis of the adult's and the child's view of the world. (BB)

Critically reviews the question of childhood in the context of simultaneous globalization and atomization of social life. Discusses childhood in relation to children as consumers, children as interpreters, and children as actors. Suggests that these ideas help explain some of the tensions and disruptions that characterize the lives of some…

Object relations theory offers the most viable explanation of the dynamics of sexually abused individuals by allowing for the conceptualization of an individual, whose earlier object relations left him barren, lonely, or neglected, as having a predisposition or vulnerability to abuse. Children with adequate nurturing experiences react negatively…

This paper attempts to integrate empirical research results pertaining to benefits parents may derive from their children in enhancing or maintaining their social status. A model of a two-way flow of such help throughout the family cycle is offered and special attention is given to the differences between socioeconomic groups. (Author)

Presents a model of parent, child, and parent-child variables as they influence children's academic achievement; discusses reciprocity of parent-child interactions; and presents preliminary findings of a study that simultaneously considered data from each component of the model. Analysis supported the model. (SKC)

Focused on the experiences with work of children from 7 months to 18 years of age in families who worked at home for income. Findings indicated all verbal children had concrete knowledge of their parents' work. All children were involved with their parents' work in a developmental progression. (Author/BB)

Presents an annotated bibliography for children in kindergarten through grade six. The titles in this bibliography focus not on world problems but more on the child's everyday world, particularly in the home and community. They positively strengthen and reinforce children's own world views and illustrate active roles children can play. (BB)

A short description of the planning of Serendipity Instructional Materials Center, which incorporated childrens suggestions in its planning. (HB)