Includes bibliographies and index.

Needs of the nineties / Irving Lazar -- Parent education: understanding parents so that they can understand themselves and their children / Helen F. Durio and Robert Hughes, Jr. -- The adaptations of mothers of toddlers to multiple social roles / Elizabeth C. Ringsmuth -- Children in violent families : direct and indirect victims / Mildred Daley Pagelow -- Psychoeducational needs of minority children : the Mexican American child, a case in point / Richard R. Valencia -- Infant-caretaker vocalization : the foundations of language / Alan L. Ziajka -- Quality of care received by infants in community group care centers / Sylvia Ann White -- Proposing public policy in early childhood special education / Rosemary F. Peterson and Barbara J. Tardif -- Sex-role development in transition / Jeanne Kohl -- The structure and content of early representational play : the case of building blocks / Stuart Reifel -- Transformational knowledge : perpetual models as a cooperative content base for the early education of children / Doris Fromberg -- Today's issues, tomorrow's possibilities / Barbara Bowman and Elizabeth H. Brady.