Presented by:Dr. Isabel V. Sawhill, senior fellow and co-director of the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution. Runtime: 1:07:59
Highlighting Cultural Diversity from a Global Perspective
November 01, 2011
As the demographics of the United States and the world shift and global processes grow in importance, it is critical to examine the impact of these issues in family and consumer sciences and related fields.
Welcome to the Latino Resource Center. Assembled here are a number of materials and activities focusing on teen pregnancy among Latinos in the United States. We hope these materials will help you initiate and/or supplement existing efforts to address teen pregnancy in the Latino community.
The Family & Consumer Sciences Research Journal is inviting submissions for a special issue with the theme of "Highlighting Cultural Diversity from a Global Perspective."
In terms of research, GLBT families constitute a neglected segment of society. Gender and sexual orientation can make the issues in family studies even more difficult to work through. An Introduction to GLBT Family Studies tackles a challenging research topic by presenting noted experts. This groundbreaking text explores a wide range of unique problems faced by nontraditional families, as well as issues common to traditional families that need to be approached with a GLBT perspective.
Provides demographic and geographic information about same-sex couples and same-sex couples raising children for all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico.
Discussion and debate about adoption and foster care by gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) parents occurs frequently among child welfare policymakers, social service agencies, and social workers. They all need better information about GLB adoptive and foster parents and their children as they make individual and policy-level decisions about placement of children with GLB parents. This report provides new information on GLB adoption and foster care from the U.S. Census 2000, the National Survey of Family Growth (2002), and the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (2004).
A family oriented book published especially for families, friends, and others interested in understanding and learning about transgender persons. The first edition sold out; this is the expanded second edition, published in 2003. It deals with all ages and types of transgender people, and is an ideal first book for families who want to understand.
