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The article presents a paper that outlines three principle features of the Kibbutz family which differentiate it from other patterns of modern family life. Changes in the status of the family during the historic development of the Kibbutz are described, they led to an evaluation of the family as a cornerstone of the Kibbutz. Recently, familistic tendencies, demanding greater power of decision-making for the family, have evolved, their role in the future growth of the Kibbutz is discussed. Spheres of parental influence are characterized, as are parent-child relations, with special emphasis on the causes for their relative smoothness during adolescence.

The article presents information on a study related to the attitudes of the high school students towards racial discrimination in the U.S. The results highlight the importance of negative stereotypes in influencing discriminatory attitudes of white high school students, as indicated by the direct association between tendency to discriminate and both prejudice and perceived nonconformity. An attempt was made to keep the prejudice and nonconformity scales independent, but considerable overlap remains. This overlap resulted in prejudice eliminating non- conformity from the multiple regression equation. A second and related finding is the importance of parental influence in shaping the perceptions and attitudes of high school students. Parents' pressure to discriminate showed a strong zero-order correlation with tendency to discriminate and was the second most important variable in the multiple regression equation. Furthermore, the significant correlation between parents' pressure to discriminate and prejudice suggests that parents are important agents in the transmission of stereotypes, which in turn may then lead to attitudes favorable to discrimination and ultimately to discriminatory behavior. A third major finding is that anxieties concerning future interaction with blacks play an important role in producing attitudes favorable to racial discrimination.

Parents often influence their sons towards the choice of unsuitable careers, either from motives of social snobbery, from a desire that the boy shall ‘follow in his father's footsteps,’ or from other motives, which are sometimes as estimable as they are misguided. But the only person qualified to choose a career for a boy is the boy himself; the function of parents, careers masters and vocational advisers is to provide him with the data (both about himself and about the occupation) which will enable him to make his choice judiciously. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a discussion on parents' locus of control and perception of cause of children's problems. Locus of control refers to the degree to which a person perceives reinforcement as contingent upon his own behavior. Internal locus of control designates the belief that one's own actions influence events in the environment; external locus of control describes the belief that one's behavior is unrelated to the outcome of these events. The article focuses on parental locus of control and related child-rearing practices. It was predicated on the assumption that parents view the results of their own child-rearing practices in much the same way that they regard other activities in their lives, either as a product of skill or of chance.