Previous studies have failed to control for potentially confounding family factors and have ignored the possibility that the casual priority is from delinquency to parental rejection, rather than the reverse. Parental rejection continued to show a moderate association with delinquency after relevant controls were introduced. The results were the same across the sexes. LISREL was employed to estimate the parameters of the reciprocal relationship between parental rejection and delinquency. Analysis indicate that the predominant casual flow is from parental rejection to delinquency. 3 tables, 52 references. (Author abstract)