Characteristics of the Parents Served

Kraft Ivor , and Chilman Catherine S. , Helping Low-Income Families Through Parent Education: A Survey of Research, Welfare Administration, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, D.C., 1966, p. iii. For other more general comments about the characteristics of low-income families, also see Catherine S. Chilman, Growing Up Poor, Welfare Administration, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Washington, D.C., 1966; Donald G. McKinley, Social Class and Family Life, The Free Press, New York, 1964; Lee Rainwater and others, Workingman's Wife: Her Personality, World and Life Style, Oceana, New York, 1959; Albert K. Cohen and Harold M. Hodges, Jr., “Characteristics of the Lower-Blue-Collar-Class,” Social Problems, Vol. X, Spring 1963, pp. 303–34; John E. Mayer, The Disclosure of Marital Problems: An Exploratory Study of Lower and Middle Class Wives, Community Service Society of New York, New York, 1966.

Aaron Rosenblatt and Richard La Rocca prepared a special manual for the group leaders to use in supervising the aides: See Research Department, Project ENABLE, “Supervising the Research Interviewing of Social Work Aides,” Family Service Association of America, New York, 1966.

For efforts to make the research program relevant to the interests of ENABLE team members, see Aaron Rosenblatt, “Organizational Problems in Conducting Research: Social Research as a Social Process,” a paper delivered at the Family Welfare Association, London, August 7, 1967, and scheduled for publication in Social Research Today, Rosenblatt Daniel (ed.), The Free Press, New York.

Beck Dorothy Fahs , Patterns in Use of Family Agency Service, Family Service Association of America, New York, 1962.

A Three Year Project of Training of Social Workers in Parent Group Education Leadership: Terminal Progress Report, Child Study Association of America, New York, 1966. Since the race of almost half of the NIMH participants was not reported, the comparative figures for this program are not included above.

This definition was used in the “Special Information Request,” Budget Bureau No. 116-R042, CAP Form 51, June 1966, p. 1.