A survey of college students in a southern university was conducted to ascertain the extent of change in sexual behavior and attitudes from data gathered five years ago. The major changes in reported incidence of premarital coitus and petting were manifested by females with males remaining approximately the same. (Author)

A discussion of all-male home economics classes at a high school in Fairfax, Virginia wherein male students apparently adopted serious attitudes towards cooking, entertaining, budgeting, selection of clothing and the like, when they were given functions of their own. (EK)

Two representative family studies are reviewed to illustrate how they could have benefited from the inclusion of alcohol-related data. Three suggested alterations in methodology are offered to close this "alcohol gap." Lastly, the discussion offers several explanations for why alcohol abuse has been so uniformly ignored by family researchers.…

This paper presents a paradigm for research in the area of evolutionary sexual behavior in marriage. (Author)

Directs the reader to sibling gender relationships. Patterns of intimacy in brother-brother and brother-sister relationships are identified. Masculine gender role patterns were expressed more frequently than classic sibling rivalry. Sisters, not mothers, were discovered to be the primary socializing agent for some of men's intimate relationships…

The psychological set which characterizes youth includes a rejection of established cultural values, a search for identity, groping, an attitude of experimentation, and a desire for change. Results of this for the family will be experimentation with family forms and drugs, alteration of the family's leisure function, and socialization procedures.…

The administration of and student response to a behavioral analysis required of 170 students (steadily dating to engaged) enrolled in the preparation for marriage course at East Carolina University during the academic year 1969-70 are discussed. (Author)

Exceptions to stereotypes of leisure behavior suggest that leisure may be chosen by the participant more than determined by social position. Unconditional, coordinated, and complementary types of leisure are distinguished by orientations toward intrinsic satisfaction or role expectations. (Author)

This paper reviews literature and reports empirical data concerning filial responsibility (FR) expectations and realizations among 595 low-income, elderly parents. Age, marital status, income, and health were significantly associated with both FR expectations and realizations; race was unrelated to either. (Author)

Issues raised in gay parent custody cases are examined. Data indicate that notions about gay fathers' compensatory behavior, molestation of children, negative influence on child development, and instigation of harassment are largely unfounded. The father's "coming out" to his children tends to relieve family tension and strengthen the father-child…

When facing terminal illness, the dying individual needs to accept death and his feelings about it, deal with potential isolation from friends and relatives, and find meaning in his remaining time. Family members need also to accept death. Family counseling offers a treatment method for responding to these needs. (Author)

This research, based on approximately 650 college student questionnaires, suggests that it is difficult for youth to think of their parents as sexual beings. Students' estimates of their parents' sexual behavior disagreed significantly with research data on the sexual behavior of parent-age populations. (Author)

Sex-role characteristics have been differentiated into sex-role orientation, sex-role preference, and sex-role adoption. These sex-role characteristics must, in turn, be distinguished from one's similarity to a parent. A literature review found fathers generally more concerned than mothers with sex-typing their children, particularly their boys.…

The traditional division of labor in the household along sex lines establishes dichotomy for females and males resulting in some men's alienation from the intimacy of the house. This study traces the role of early childhood experiences in shaping this dichotomy and examines adult household patterns which maintain sex role division. (Author)