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Author: Feigelman, William
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1. Feigelman, William
Adopted Adults: Comparisons with Persons Raised in Conventional Families
Marriage and Family Review 25,3/4 (1997): 199-223.
Also: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J002v25n03_05
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Haworth Press, Inc.
Keyword(s): Adoption; Alcohol Use; Behavioral Problems; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Drug Use; Educational Attainment; Family Studies; Marital Stability

With archival data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth, this study compares the adult behavior patterns of adoptees (N = 101) and children raised in all other types of attenuated nuclear families (N = 3,949) with those raised till age 18 by both biological parents (N = 6,258). Both adoptees from intact two-parent families and those raised in all other types of disrupted nuclear families showed a higher incidence of problem behaviors during adolescence than children raised exclusively by both big-parents. This was in terms of the following dimensions: delinquency, youth crime, and the use of alcohol and drugs. Later, during adulthood, the educational attainments, job statuses, and levels of marital stability of those growing up in all types of disrupted nuclear families lagged behind those raised by both birth parents. At the time when most respondents were entering their thirties, those growing up in attenuated nuclear families were also more likely to report symptoms of depression. Adoptees, too, showed some, but much less clear evidence of long-term difficulties arising from their more turbulent adolescent experiences, compared to those growing up with both big-parents. By their late twenties and early thirties adoptees reported more instances of cohabitation prior to marriage and more females seemed to report lower levels of marital happiness. Yet, in most all other aspects surveyed-such as the recent use of drugs, educational attainments, job holding, employment successes, asset accumulations, home ownership and marital stability, they appeared much like those raised in intact big-parent families. Like their counterparts from all types of disrupted nuclear families, adoptees showed a need for greater social services-especially during adolescence--to overcome psycho-social problems emerging at that time. In the absence of having such care, long-term dysfunctional consequences are more likely to occur, especially for those raised in all other types of attenuated nuclear families. [Article copies available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1-800-342-9678. E-mail address: getinfo@haworth.com]
Bibliography Citation
Feigelman, William. "Adopted Adults: Comparisons with Persons Raised in Conventional Families." Marriage and Family Review 25,3/4 (1997): 199-223.
2. Feigelman, William
Cigarette Smoking Among Former Military Service Personnel. A Neglected Social Issue
Preventive Medicine 23,2 (March 1994): 235-241.
Also: http://www.idealibrary.com/links/artid/pmed.1994.1032
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Academic Press, Inc.
Keyword(s): Behavior; Cigarette Use (see Smoking); General Social Survey (GSS); Military Personnel; Military Service; Veterans

Based on secondary analysis of archival data from the General Social Surveys and the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth, this article examines smoking among active military personnel, veterans, and comparable civilian populations. Results conformed with past research and indicated higher smoking rates for currently active military personnel than for contemporary civilians. Findings among men and women who were in their thirties during the early 1980s suggest that military personnel and civilians alike exhibited the same tendency toward cigarette use and initiated smoking at approximately the same ages. Military smoking did not appear to be a situational behavior which occurred only during a recruit's tour of duty; results also suggest that previous military experience was associated with higher lifelong patterns of cigarette consumption, compared to those who had never been in the armed services.
Bibliography Citation
Feigelman, William. "Cigarette Smoking Among Former Military Service Personnel. A Neglected Social Issue." Preventive Medicine 23,2 (March 1994): 235-241.
3. Feigelman, William
Hands on Sociology: Revised and Expanded Edition
New York, NY: Addison Wesley Longman, Inc, 1999
Cohort(s): NLSY79
Publisher: Addison Wesley Longman, Inc.
Keyword(s): Behavioral Problems; Crime; Data Analysis; Ethnic Groups/Ethnicity; Family Studies; General Social Survey (GSS); Risk-Taking; Sociability/Socialization/Social Interaction; Urbanization/Urban Living

Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher.

The idea of a microcomputer workbook designed for beginning sociology students is by no means a novel one. There have been a fair number of such programs and learning packages created in recent years. Practically every publisher can boast of having at least one such supplement, which it often offers free to users of its main texts. However, most of the programs and workbooks have remained underutilized, having sunk deep into the paper pile on professors' desks, where they remain, gathering dust. Unlike some of the many programs built around studying imaginary societies or simulation models, the present book is based upon real social data. It draws from a variety of archival sociological data sources: the General Social Surveys; the National Longitudinal Study of Youth; the Chicago Homicides Study; and The American National Election Studies, among others.
Bibliography Citation
Feigelman, William. Hands on Sociology: Revised and Expanded Edition. New York, NY: Addison Wesley Longman, Inc, 1999.