Attitudes of North Dakota High School Students Toward the Farm Crisis
This was a discussion of how farm crisis affected North Dakota high school students in their career choices. Knowing more about how economic stress may influence adolescent career choice, knowing more about adolescent attitudes towards and their awareness of the farm crisis could help parents and educators provide adolescents with more accurate information concerning the farm economy. A survey was taken asking teens their attitudes towards farming. Both teens form rural and urban settings opted for college. The article then breaks down the differences in responses based upon gender and other factors.
Social Placement of Adolescents: Sex-Role Influences on Family Decisions Regarding the Careers of Youth.
,family decisions regarding the career goals of teenagers. Special attention was focused upon 96 qf these families, a h having both a male and female adolesc . Results indicated that family decisions favored the career goals of adolescent males over adolescent females by a 4 to 1 ratio. That is, the differential preference given to adolescents' goals seemed to be determined by the adolescents' gender. Furthermore, this variable retained its explanatory efficacy despite analyses for the effects of such alternative variables as the ordinal position of the adolescent, religious preference of parents, religiosity qf parents, education qf fathers, fathers' income, employment status of mothers, and whether the daughters desired an occupational or homemaking career as a primary life goal. Another important finding was that daughters were divided about equally in their choices of an occupational versus homemaking career. Generational differences were also prevalent, because fathers clearly preferred domestic goals for their daughters more than adolescent females chose these goals for themselves.
Contemporary Marriage Types
one of three types (wife as equal partner. junior partner. o r complement). A sample of younger white wives is categorized by their responses to an item assessing economic provider duties. Rased on that criterion and their paid employment status, women in the three categories are compared over five clusters of variables that are alleged to distinguish among the three types. Results suggest that the classification schema possesses a certain degree of validity. although more research in needed to refine the schema and enhance its usefulness.