A course in Family Life Education entitled "Home and Family Living" is offered to male and female junior and senior students in the Houston Independent School District. The student explores his self-awareness, stages of maturity, sexuality, handling emotions, marriage roles, money management, and later life. (BP)

This document contains a summary of a policy seminar, "Family Centered Social Policy: The Emerging Agenda," a background briefing report on the seminar, and a 50-item reference list. The first section summarizes presentations by K. M. Harris on a Baltimore study of teen mothers' welfare experience; Robert Lerman on young fathers; and…

This correspondence course was designed to help parents better understand their growing children and themselves as parents. The introduction briefly sketches the importance of the family in child development. Each of the five illustrated lessons contains 7 to 12 pages on one aspect of family life. Each lesson contains a set of objectives, a…

This document outlines the rationale of the grade 2 social studies curriculum of the Lebanon School District, Lebanon, New Hampshire. The content sequence is given. The children are asked to compare their families with a family of the Hopi Indian tribe and to learn the geography of the area where the Hopi families live. Skills to be gained are…

This document contains an annotated bibliography of sexuality and family life education curricula which are available for sale. The curricula are listed without evaluation and, because of topic overlap, specific content areas covered in each curriculum are not listed in the annotations. It is noted, however, that topics often covered include…

This annotated bibliography contains 99 entries, listed alphabetically by author, that are concerned with religion and family life education. Articles listed discuss sexuality and family life education from Jewish and Christian perspectives. Many of the entries deal with adolescent sexuality and offer resources for children, adolescents, parents,…

The purpose of this book is to assist leaders in a variety of settings to address young people on the critical issues of teenage sexuality. The units are presented in a sequential pattern which covers teenage sexual behavior as it naturally evolves. Detailed information and precise directions for presenting the lessons are featured. The curriculum…

This guide provides teachers and administrators with strategies for implementing leadership development as an integral component of the home and family life curriculum. A rationale for integrating leadership into the curriculum is followed by a framework for integration. The framework criteria provided have been established to assist teachers in…

The Cooperative Extension Service is targeting more educational programs to older people and families. This coincides with the increasing numbers of older persons and four generation families. The Extension Service seeks to provide preventive education which will help individuals make informed decisions and develop living skills. The Extension…

This paper reviews some of the current research findings on fertility among adolescents which indicate that illegitimacy may be becoming increasingly concentrated in the teenage years, and considers the implications of this phenomenon for mothers, children and society. The relationship of the changing sexual activity of American teenagers, the…

Where one of the parties is under 18, California law since November, 1970 has required premarital counseling before receipt of a marriage license. This article describes the program, established to meet this need based on a model of education about problems of everyday living. (Author)

One approach to the educational challenge presented by helping family members identify and appraise role-shifts and their stress-producing outcomes is presented in the article: an exercise for recognition and appraisal of role-shifts, accompanied by four visual aids for reproduction as dittos or transparencies. (Author/AJ)

Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association on Mental Deficiency (92nd, Boston, 1968).

This student guide for a program concerned with how young children acquire their food likes and dislikes, their feelings about food, and their patterns of eating, discusses how parents can help their children develop good nutrition habits and provides some basic nutrition information for the whole family. Designed around a magazine format to allow…