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Jones, Sandy – 1979
Parents should admit and articulate their negative feelings about parenting, share feelings of suffering with other parents, and nurture each other. On the basis of a new shared understanding, parents can then organize and work to redefine the nurturing role and humanize society and its institutions so that they better meet human needs. Soell's…
Descriptors: Discussion Groups, Emotional Problems, Interpersonal Relationship, Parent Attitudes
Maccoby, Eleanor E.; Buchanan, Christy M. – 1991
Parental conflict as it occurs in the context of divorce was studied in an effort to determine the role that conflict plays in a variety of psychosocial problems in children. Data were drawn from a 5-year longitudinal study of about 1,000 families who filed for divorce in 1984. The first phase of the study involved a series of interviews with the…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Attachment Behavior, Child Custody, Children
Mulkey, Lynn M.; Morton, Peter J. – 1991
This investigation revives direct impact explanations of single-parent effects on student performance by further disagreggation by sex of the student. The effect of living in a single-parent household on the standardized test scores of students was estimated separately for males and females through analyses of data from the High School and Beyond…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Economic Status, Emotional Problems, High School Students