Families in Context

African American information:
www.infoplease.com/spot/bhmcensus/.html

Census Bureau (This will get you started):
www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hh-fam.html

Child Trends (Up-to-date information about children):
www.childtrendsdatabank.org/indicators/59FamilyStructure.cfm

Children’s Defense Fund
www.childrensdefensefund.org/

Drug use and health:
www.oas.samhsa.gov/nhsda/2k2nsduh/Overview/2k2Overview.htm#highlights

Employment/unemployment:
www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm

General census information:
http://search.msn.com/preview.aspx?&q=March+Current+Population+Reports

Education for community problem solving: See the section titled “Small southern high schools beating the odds in poor rural communities”:
www.ruraledud.org

Grandparenting: (AARP)
www.aarp.org/grandparents

Love: [A study guide to accompany Diane Ackerman’s A Natural History of Love,
1995, New York: Random House (Vintage Books), paperback $14.00]
www.wsu.edu:8080/~brians/love-in-the-arts/ackerman.html

Marriage, Divorce, and Cohabitation:
www.cdc.gov/nchs/releases/02news/div_mar_cohab.htm
www.gendercenter.org/mdr.htm

National Council on Family Relations
www.ncfr.com/

National Runaway Switchboard:
www.nrscrisisline.org/2003stat.asp

Stepfamily Foundation:
www.stepfamily.org/statistics.html