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O'Connell, Martin; Payne, Peggy – 1977
This report presents the childbearing experience and fertility expectations of American women based on data collected in the June, 1976, Current Population Survey. Survey findings include the birth expectations of young single women who, as they marry, will contribute a major portion of the births in the United States within a few years. An…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Demography, Educational Background, Females
Kegal, Paul L. – 1975
In order to measure the importance of financial assistance to part-time students and develop a profile of part-time students at Worthington Community College (WCC), a questionnaire was designed and mailed to each of the 255 persons who had enrolled at WCC as part-time students during the 1974-75 college year. Although the response rate was low…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Family Influence, Financial Needs, Financial Support
Bell, Alexander Graham – 1969
A compilation of data on the hereditary aspects of deafness presented at a conference in 1883 by Alexander Graham Bell, the document contains records of familial occurences of deafness and marriage statistics. Tables indicate that within schools for the deaf many students had the same family name; it was considered highly probable that a…
Descriptors: Environmental Influences, Exceptional Child Research, Family Characteristics, Family Relationship
Flores, Thomas R. – 1973
Student personnel services in United States colleges and universities largely ignore the needs of married students and their families. This report serves the following purposes: (1) to discover needs of the married student population for student services; (2) to propose programmatic endeavors to serve the needs discovered; and (3) to develop and…
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Planning, Evaluation Criteria, Marital Status
Women's Bureau (DOL), Washington, DC. – 1970
In 1969 there were 30.5 million women workers (38 percent of all workers) 16 years of age and over, which represented an increase of 1.3 million since 1968. About 58 percent of the women workers were married and living with their husbands. Labor force participation was highest among mothers with school-age children only (51 percent) and lowest…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Employed Women, Employment Experience
Rice, Rodger R.; Beegle, J. Allen – 1972
Information presented in this monograph is an extension and reanalysis of data forming a part of the 1960 census monograph, "The People of Rural America." The main purpose of the monograph is the analysis of the variation in rural and urban fertility levels in the United States. Major questions upon which the study is focused include: (1) What is…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Demography, Family Planning, Marital Status
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Moles, Oliver C. – Journal of Social Issues, 1976
Public assistance and decennial census data from all 50 states and the District of Columbia are used to examine whether welfare payments provide an incentive for mothers with minor children to separate from their husbands. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Divorce, Family Problems, Family Structure
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Bane, Mary Jo – Journal of Social Issues, 1976
A review of the literature suggests that opposition to divorce reform for the sake of the children cannot be justified and an examination of the economic problems of single-parent families leads to proposals for income support. (Author/AM)
Descriptors: Child Rearing, Child Welfare, Childhood Needs, Divorce
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Cupach, William R.; Metts, Sandra – Communication Monographs, 1986
Reveals that individuals personally cope with spoiled relationships and socially manage relationship dissolution principally through verbal accounts. Indicates that the structural and affective enmeshment of marital couples lend to their disengagement accounts a characteristic complexity not paralleled in the accounts of unmarried couples. (JD)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Communication Research, Conflict Resolution, Human Relations
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Tietjen, Anne Marie – International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1985
Finds a significant relationship between characteristics of mothers' social networks and those of their children in a sample of 72 Swedish mothers and children. Nature and strength of relationships varied with mothers' marital status and children's gender. Networks of married mothers and daughters were most similar; networks of single mothers and…
Descriptors: Children, Comparative Analysis, Daughters, Marital Status
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Caetano, Raul – Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 1984
Interviews with 634 Hispanics living in California's San Francisco Bay Area provided data on their drinking patterns by sex, age, income, education, marital status, occupation, and religion. Results confirmed previous findings that indicate that Hispanics have a higher rate of heavy drinking and alcohol problems than other ethnic groups. (NQA)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Alcoholism, Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis
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Morgenstern, Richard D.; Hamovitch, William – Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 1976
This study examines differences in the labor supply of married women to part-time and full-time occupations, concluding that there are major differences in the determinants of labor supply for married women in part-time as opposed to full-time occupations. (HD)
Descriptors: Economic Research, Employed Women, Labor Market, Labor Supply
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McBee, M. Louise; And Others – Journal of the NAWDAC, 1976
The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between a woman's self-esteem level, her marital status, and type of profession. Results indicated that marital status has no bearing on the level of self-esteem, while women in masculine professions have higher self-esteem than do those in feminine professions. (KRP)
Descriptors: Employed Women, Females, Graduate Students, Higher Education
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Aslin, Alice L. – Counseling Psychologist, 1976
Counselors intervening with divorced and widowed women should recognize the trauma associated with losing the wife role and the failure of traditional female socialization to prepare most women for more assertive, autonomous functioning. Counseling approaches and programs should prepare "single-again" women to replace stereotypic female behavior…
Descriptors: Counseling, Divorce, Females, Homemakers
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Corns, Ray – Journal of Law and Education, 1972
Discusses recent judicial trends affecting the rights of married and/or pregnant students to attend school or participate in extracurricular activities. (JF)
Descriptors: After School Programs, Court Litigation, Equal Protection, Expulsion
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