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Download full textRawlings, Steve W. – Current Population Reports, 1986
This annual report summarizes some of the notable recent trends in household and family characteristics and contains detailed demographic data from the March, 1985 "Current Population Survey." The households vary greatly in size and complexity. Some of the aspects of household demography that have important consequences for both consumer demand…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Children, Demography, Early Parenthood
Duffy, Mary E.; Jorgensen, Karen – 1986
A growing number of families are headed by single women. A longitudinal study was conducted to identify major goals of these women. Data from mailed questionnaires and telephone interviews were collected from 136 divorced women. Results from the first year of the study revealed the goal most often identified by the women was financial…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Divorce, Employed Parents, Employment Potential
Congress of the U. S., Washington, DC. House Committee on Government Operations. – 1985
This report details findings of the Intergovernmental Relations and Human Resources Subcommittee concerning the strengths and weaknesses of current and proposed Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) work programs for promoting self-sufficiency among poor women; the role of support services such as day care; successful innovations in State…
Descriptors: Day Care, Employment Programs, Federal Programs, Females
Middlesex County Vocational and Technical High Schools, New Brunswick, NJ. – 1987
The Coordinated Assistance, Services and Training (CAST) program reaches out to identify, counsel, and provide services for Hispanic women who are single-parent homemakers. The program is designed to increase their involvement in vocational training, provide them with support services, and help them secure and retain higher-paying jobs. The…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Counseling Services, Employment Potential, Fatherless Family
Rosenthal, Carolyn J.; And Others – 1981
Family headship has not been systematically investigated in the sociology of the family, yet "head of the family" is a meaningful phrase to most people. A survey of adults (N=464) in Ontario revealed that only two percent of the respondents did not understand the term. Other data showed that traditional male-dominated authority patterns…
Descriptors: Adults, Extended Family, Family Relationship, Family Role
Weston, Elsie M. – 1976
This publication reviews the status of women in the labor market of Los Angeles County. Some of the topics dealt with include the changes in status that have already occurred, some of the barriers still existing, and projections of women's status in the future. Specific areas explored in this document include women's participation in the work…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Employed Women, Employment Projections, Employment Statistics
Mott, Frank L. – 1979
A study of the socioeconomic status of households headed by women was conducted based upon data obtained from the National Longitudinal Surveys (NLS) of Labor Market Experience. (Since the mid-1960s NLS has been following labor market experiences of four cohorts of persons including male and female youth and mature men and women.) This study used…
Descriptors: Blacks, Educational Experience, Employment Experience, Employment Problems
Miller, Richard E. – 1979
The Rural Income Maintenance Experiment (1979) used sample subjects from the Midwest and the South (Iowa and North Carolina) to measure the effect of alternative tax rates and minimum guarantees upon the work behavior of rural male heads of households. Three contingent aspects of job change behavior were examined: the impacts of support on…
Descriptors: Blacks, Career Change, Comparative Analysis, Guaranteed Income
National Council on Family Relations, Minneapolis, Minn. – 1973
The Task Force on Divorce and Divorce Reform was established by the Family Action Section of the National Council on Family Relations in the Fall of 1971. Its purpose was to study divorce in relation to the family, and draft a report which would constitute the basis for action by the NCFR and its members. Since several aspects of divorce were to…
Descriptors: Crisis Intervention, Divorce, Family Life, Family Problems
Hoover, Sally L. – 1978
Using data from the 1976 Annual Housing Survey, this paper presents information on housing for 1,865,000 households headed by persons under 65 that include one or more dependents aged 65 or over. It also provides data that will aid in the critical evaluation of the merits of federal programs designed to provide financial incentives for families…
Descriptors: Extended Family, Family Structure, Federal Programs, Financial Support
Singer, Joseph F. – 1972
The specific purpose of this study was to evaluate the role of several decades of high out-migration in the socioeconomic adjustment of households left behind in the Arkansas Ozarks and to identify meaningful labor force and social adjustments to poverty area industrialization. The study involved 12 counties in north-central Arkansas. The research…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Attitudes, Economic Factors, Heads of Households
Peer reviewedLincoln, James R. – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1978
It is argued that past research on family structure and stratification processes affecting family members has obscured the distinction between achievement of socioeconomic status and social mobility. Data on household structure and educational and occupational patterns of a sample of male household heads in Santiago, Chile, in 1960 are used.…
Descriptors: Educational Background, Extended Family, Family Structure, Foreign Countries
Pelto, Pertti J.; And Others – Urban Anthropology, 1982
Family structures in two lower-income Puerto Rican neighborhoods in Hartford, Connecticut were studied. Researchers concluded that structures vary considerably, that economic difficulties impact heavily on mental health and general adaptability, and that dual parent households where neither parent is employed experience the greatest difficulties.…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Family Structure, Fatherless Family, Heads of Households
Kissman, Kris; Allen, Jo Ann – 1993
More than one fourth of all families today are one-parent families, and almost 90 percent of those families are headed by women. This book focuses on assessment and intervention with one-parent families, particularly mother-headed families, based on gender-sensitive principles combined with other family-centered strategies to help accentuate the…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Ethnicity, Family (Sociological Unit), Family Structure
Bird, Gloria W. – 1982
The rapid increase in the number of families with two wage-earners has contributed significantly to changes in family structure and function in the past three decades; a current belief holds that wives who share the income-earner role have a right to expect more assistance from their husbands with such family tasks as meal preparations, cleaning,…
Descriptors: Dual Career Family, Family Attitudes, Family Income, Family Structure
