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Nurses have always been involved with in health care and health education of families in agencies and throughout the community in American history. It was not until more recent times starting in the early 1980s, that the nursing profession began to identify a specialty called Family Nursing or Family Health Care Nursing.

Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., prolific writer and researcher of family ancestry.

A graduating senior, Jessica, from California Polytechnic State University, receives the most wonderful graduation gift imaginable from her brother, Eric! 

Maria Schmeekle, Professor of Sociology at Illinois State, teaches family studies through a global lens. She began experimenting with a global/transnational/comparative approach in her Marriage and Family class. This kind of approach felt vital to her in a world that is increasingly interconnected, a world that we are sending students out to navigate. In this article, she offers some valuable tips.

Part of our preparation for NCFR's 75^th anniversary conference in 2013 will be the unveiling of the NCFR History project. One of our staff members called my attention to one of the conference panelists from the very first conference in 1938 and showed me an online book of his (scary) ideas. If I hadn't seen some of his work in print, I would have never believed it.

In this 1953 short film, a young lady named Molly prepares for and experiences menarche.

Have you ever received an offer that sounds too good to be true? Maybe it was even sent to you by a trusted source. Before handing over your credit card information or any other personal info, make sure you know the facts and the risks involved.