DJJ was assigned responsibility for juvenile delinquency cases and children and families in need of services (CINS/FINS) cases.

How people occupied themselves in family settings, the tasks they assumed or were assigned - especially women and children - is the theme of the show's biggest section, "Domestic Roles."

As opponents of this demand have pointed out, to assign children to certain schools by reason of their race, is equally evil whether one does it for purposes of segregation or integration.

The dismantling of apartheid undertaken by President F. W. de Klerk has not extended to South Africa's educational system, which still assigns white, black, mixed-race and Indian children to schools segregated by race.

Tracking, in short, endures, though in more variable forms than a generation ago, when critics began questioning the racially discriminatory effect of the I.Q. tests used to assign children to tracks.

The researchers could not randomly assign children to one kind of care or another; parents chose the kind of care that suited them.

One statute, the Pupil Placement Act, not repealed until 1966, divested local boards of authority to assign children to particular schools and placed that authority in a State Pupil Placement Board.

A true experiment would randomly assign children to a scholarship, in order to control for all other variables.

Desegregation policies that assign children to public schools based on race - sometimes busing them to achieve integration - have lost ground steadily since they were introduced in the 1960's and 70's.

In killing the plan, the city cited a lawsuit brought by white parents who challenged the legality of assigning children to schools based on race.