This investigation is a study of educational and vocational goals of
a selected sample of rural youth; relationship of the parents‘ goals for
their children to the ch1ldrens' goals; and a study of the relationships of
sex, farm residence, membership in certain youth organizations, and level
of living to these goals.
Subjects were 49 ninth and tenth grade boys and girls and their
parents, living in the Appalachian region of Virginia. The sample of
families were chosen by criteria for selection of youths rather than parents.
According to student classification types 24 were boys, 25 were girls; 26
were members of the 3-H Club, Future Farmers or Future Homemakers of
America; 19 were classes in the high, 2l in the middle, and 9 in the low
level of living groups; and 20 lived on farms.
Schedules relating to vocational and educational goals were administered
to the students and their parents. Parents were asked to complete
the questionnaire as they hoped their ninth or tenth grade child would
answer.
Results of the data collected revealed that plans for a college education
were higher for girls, for non-farm, non-membership, and higher
level of living youths. Most students had not decided what to study in college; and home economics and agriculture ranked low in popularity
for high school and college. Educational and vocational goals of the youths were lower than their parents' goals for them, and there was often conflict between goals of parents and children.
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