Examined sexuality attitudes of home economics secondary teachers (N=191). Results indicated that teachers felt positive about teaching sexuality education and their own sexuality, perceived limited support, and held more liberal than traditional sexual behavior codes. More topics were taught by teachers who felt competent and perceived school…

Discusses the social construction of adoptive parenting and adopted children as reflected in clinical and adoption triangle research. Although clinicians view adoptive families as second best to biologically related families, a random sample of 150 respondents did not differentiate between the functioning of adoptive and biologically related…