Presents the author's feelings about the responsibility parents should take for the design and implementation of their children's educational curriculum. (SRT)

Surveyed 205 Nigerian parents to examine knowledge and acceptance of drug education programs. Results showed only 41 percent of the parents want drug education in the schools, and 83 percent thought parents should take primary responsibility. (JAC)

Refutes criticism of public schools, pointing out that schools have assumed too many responsibilities without having resources to do the job. As a beginning, urges an examination of the current role of public schools for the purpose of reassigning to other organizations some of the tasks now assigned to them. (EL)

Surveyed 94 couples to determine effects on child care experience associated with gender, parity, and various other demographic variables. As expected, women had higher scores than men. Experience was a linear function of parity for men, but not for women, and was unrelated to attitudes toward women. Implications for child care responsibility are…

Home instruction is becoming more common and public school officials oppose it. They point to parents' deficiencies as teachers and the importance of group experiences for children's personal and intellectual growth. Both groups must learn to communicate and cooperate if legal action is to be avoided. (JOW)

The child support reform provisions within the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) have been markedly successful in improving child support enforcement efforts. Child support is an important part of the mix of supports necessary to assist welfare recipients to make the transition to work and…

Noting that fewer than half the single mothers in the United States receive complete and regular child support payments, this paper discusses reasons for unpaid child support, examines whether stricter enforcement of child support obligations will help solve the overall problem, and proposes another option for solving the problem of unpaid child…

Written in a question and answer format, this booklet is designed to answer parents' basic questions about how to obtain child support for their child or others' questions about how to help families get the support they need. The booklet's introduction describes what child support payments can do for a child and where parents can find help in…

This article investigates differential investment by men in children by using a biosocial perspective to examine their financial expenditures on their genetic children and stepchildren from both current and former relationships. It uses a sample of 635 children age 0-12 years drawn from the Albuquerque Men Study 1990-93, which involved interviews…

Parent involvement in residential treatment programs can reduce the length of institutional care and guarantee longer lasting treatment results. Parents who accept a sharing role in treatment learn to cope with and accept family problems and improve their relationships with their children. (CS)

Argues that all drivers of school buses should be trained professionals, and explains how parent awareness of discipline problems on buses can be increased by playing them a tape recording of a ride. Discusses the efforts of a research team to draft a performance standard for the construction of a school bus body with emphasis on panel separation,…

The demand for career education is real and it is strong, concludes the author, who encourages educators to debate the concept after reviewing its basic components, current status and implications. (Editor)

A parental continuum scale designed to measure parenting capacities is presented as a tool to help child welfare agencies decide whether and when to separate children from their natural parents. (NH)

Sex education in the schools is often too late and can only be remedial. What is needed is prevention by education and parent involvement. Parents have an obligation to talk about sex and sexuality to their children, during their first 10 years of life, and to help them develop sexually. (CJ)

Discusses the dangers of simplistic criticisms of television and highlights opportunities shared by broadcasters and parents to strengthen families by creating better television. (JJD)