Abstracts.

This article presents brief summaries of various articles, related to family life and marriage, previously published in several periodicals. One article presents a report of preliminary descriptive findings from a Ford Foundation-supported survey of fertility and its control in Israel. The authors report the extent of contraception and induced abortion practices of 3006 Jewish women who gave birth in one of 23 Israeli hospitals sometime during the period from August, 1959 through March 1960. Most births to Jewish mothers take place in these hospitals. An interview questionnaire was administered by nurses to the women, usually during the three-four days following delivery. The author, a caseworker, offers her professional advice on treating "marital role reversal" and discusses a successfully treated case. Recent marked social changes particularly in family life require child welfare agencies to reexamine the nature of the children under their care, available foster homes, and the community role they play in treating and placing children. Adoptive families are subjected to certain pressures in their efforts to meet the needs of their adopted children. In addition, foster parents have special needs of their own which have led them to consult an adoption agency. In particular many seem to feel some need to deny the differences of adoptive and biological parenthood.