Reviews research since 1970 on the effects of pornography on men's treatment of, and underlying attitudes toward, women. Holds that anger is a greater social problem than pornography, particularly in men who are unable to resolve that anger and to distinguish it from sexual arousal and control over women. (Author/GC)

Research regarding adolescent outcome for hyperactive youngsters is reviewed. It is noted that hyperactive adolescents are at risk for a variety of academic, emotional, and societal difficulties which apparently develop regardless of whether the child was successfully treated with medication, even though short term studies have shown syptomatic…

Existing evidence on family violence rates by age and race as well as the available data on race and physical elder abuse incidence rates suggests that because such data are not based on random or representative samples and tend to reflect a "sampling artifact" of the particular client populations served by the professionals surveyed,…

Youth violence is widely recognized as a critical social issue in the United States, and many approaches to prevention have been developed in recent years. Emerging research suggests that only approaches that are deeply embedded in cultural, community, and organizational contexts are likely to be powerful enough to have a meaningful collective…

The increasing percentage of children living apart from their natural fathers is an unpredicted, and not widely discussed, trend. Fatherlessness is a major force behind many disturbing U.S. social problems. The institution of marriage acts as culture's chief vehicle to bind men to their children. The absence of fathers from children's lives is one…