Abstracts.

This section presents abstracts of studies and articles on matters related to the family. The article Parent-Teenage Relationships, by Carol Larson Stone and Paul H. Landis, attempted to relate family authority patterns to the adjustment problems of teenagers. A high school student sample of 1,900 boys and 2,410 girls was administered a scale of six dichotomous questions which sorted them into either democratic, intermediate or authoritarian families. In the article Kinsey's Study of the Sexual Behavior in the Human Male and Female, author Karl Menninger criticizes Dr. Kinsey's zoological approach to the studies of human behavior. He charges Kinsey with forcing human behavior into a biological frame of reference ignoring human psychology and seeing normality as that which is natural in the sense that it is practiced by animals. In the article The Psychocultural Approach in Sex Research, author Lawrence K. Frank sketches the development of sexuality in the infant, child and adult. Each culture defines the masculine and feminine roles and orientates each individual to the part he or she will play in regard to the other sex. What appears to be significant is that each culture utilizes or suppresses in varying degrees the enormous sexual potential of mankind.