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https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/reunificacion/
Reunification: Bringing Your Children Home From Foster Care
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U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children & Families
For families working toward reunification, this factsheet offers a general overview of the entire process, from foster care to returning and living at home.
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Family Law and Public Policy
Internal Dynamics of Families
Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
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https://www.zerotothree.org/resources/1940-advancing-state-policies-for-infants-and-toddlers-lessons-learned-from-three-states?utm_term=Advancing%20State%20Policies%20for%20Infants%20and%20Toddlers%3A%20Lessons%20Learned%20From%20Three%20States&utm_campaign=Advancing%20State%20Policies%20for%20Infants%20and%20Toddlers%3A%20Lessons%20Learned%20From%20Three%20States&utm_content=email&utm_source=Act-On%20Software&utm_medium=email&cm_mmc=Act-On%20Software-_-email-_-Advancing%20State%20Policies%20for%20Infants%20and%20Toddlers%3A%20Lessons%20Learned%20From%20Three%20States-_-Advancing%20State%20Policies%20for%20Infants%20and%20Toddlers%3A%20Lessons%20Learned%20From%20Three%20States
Lessons Learned From Three States
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Zero to Three
The states of Indiana, Oregon, and Vermont participated in a project to develop cross-sector infant-toddler policy priorities.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
Family Law and Public Policy
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https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/resource/understanding-american-indian-and-alaska-native-early-childhood-needs-the-potential-of-existing-data?utm_source=ACF%20OPRE%20News%207/13/17&utm_campaign=OPRE%20News%207/13/17&utm_medium=email
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Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, the Administration for Children and Families
This report describes preliminary work in support of an early childhood needs assessment for American Indian and Alaska Native children prenatal to age five.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
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/ncfr-report/focus/sleep-overview-and-introduction
How did you sleep last night? Don’t lose any sleep over it. Let me sleep on it. Sleep well! — we talk about sleep a lot in day-to-day conversation!
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Internal Dynamics of Families
Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Family Health
Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
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/ncfr-report/focus/are-you-awake
Multiple indicators are linked with marital outcomes, including sleep quality, sleep disturbances, sleep disorders, and even congruence of spousal sleep patterns.
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Internal Dynamics of Families
Family Health
Interpersonal Relationships
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/ncfr-report/focus/beginners-again-and-again
Any change in either partner, their relationship, or their environment may disrupt their system of bedsharing, and then they are beginners again.
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Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
Internal Dynamics of Families
Interpersonal Relationships
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/ncfr-report/focus/effects-work-travel-sleep-patterns
Work often influences sleep and sleep is associated with health outcomes.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
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Family Resource Management
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/ncfr-report/focus/infant-sleep-arrangements-and-family-system
The topic of how parents should structure their infants’ sleep has been highly controversial and, for parents and professionals alike, very confusing.
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Parent Education and Guidance
Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
Internal Dynamics of Families
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/ncfr-report/focus/impact-sleep-marital-satisfaction-during-transition-parenthood
Two major changes after the birth of a child among married couples in developed countries are increased fatigue and decreased marital satisfaction.
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Internal Dynamics of Families
Interpersonal Relationships
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/ncfr-report/focus/empowerment-and-knowledge-guiding-parents-creating-healthy-infant-sleep-routines
A variety of different safe sleep routines are recommended for infants, and many of them identified as the only safe routine.
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Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
Internal Dynamics of Families
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Parent Education and Guidance
Family Life Education Methodology
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https://www.ncfr.org/ncfr-report/focus/why-rates-bedsharing-infants-are-rising
“Bedsharing” refers to a parent (usually the mother) and infant sharing the same adult bed for all or part of the night.
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Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
Interpersonal Relationships
Internal Dynamics of Families
Family Law and Public Policy
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https://www.ncfr.org/ncfr-report/focus/ambivalence-new-research-co-sleeping-united-states
Most Family Science literature overlooks the “forgotten third” of parenting, that is, the approximately eight hours of “sleep” needed per day.
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Internal Dynamics of Families
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https://www.ncfr.org/ncfr-report/focus/benefits-bedtime-routines-preschoolers-and-their-families
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that preschoolers sleep 10 to 13 hours daily to maximize their health, well-being, and development.
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Internal Dynamics of Families
Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
Parent Education and Guidance
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https://www.ncfr.org/ncfr-report/focus/parents-children-and-sleep-deprivation
As a mother of three growing boys—ages 9, 5, and 3 years—I can honestly say that my husband and I have not had an uninterrupted night of sleep since 2007.
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Internal Dynamics of Families
Interpersonal Relationships
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Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
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http://www.hispanicresearchcenter.org/publications/promising-features-of-hispanic-serving-early-care-and-education-programs/
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The National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families
High-quality early childhood programs can have a positive impact on children’s development, and are often more pronounced for Hispanic children
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Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
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/sites/default/files/2017-07/IFFDPapers66EN.pdf
EU Project Families and Societies Final Recommendations
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International Federation for Family Development
The project’s aim is to address changing families and sustainable societies, policy contexts and diversity over the life course and across generations
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
Internal Dynamics of Families
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http://iffd.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/IFFDPapers65EN.pdf
Helping Parents to Fulfill Their Role in the Development of Children
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International Federation for Family Development
This year’s International Day of Families focused on the role of families and family oriented policies in promoting education and overall well being
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Parent Education and Guidance
Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
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https://www.bls.gov/tus/
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
In 2016, 22 percent of workers did some or all of their work at home on days they worked. The survey also measures time spent on childcare, leisure, and more
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Family Resource Management
Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
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http://www.afcpe.org/news-and-publications/journal-of-financial-counseling-and-planning?volume=401
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Journal Of Financial Counseling And Planning
Social media play a role in the lives of young adults, but motivators and influences of this and similar sources on their money handling are not as well understood
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Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
Family Resource Management
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http://sites.nationalacademies.org/DBASSE/The_Value_of_Social_Behavioral_and_Economic_Sciences_to_National_Priorities/index.htm
A Report for the National Science Foundation (NSF)
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The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
A committee was appointed to determine whether the federal government should fund research in the social, behavioral, and economic (SBE) sciences at NSF.
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https://msfocus.org/Get-Educated/Educational-materials/Booklets
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The Multiple Sclerosis Foundation
An interactive book to help parents explain MS to their young children. Print and digital copies available for free.
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Internal Dynamics of Families
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http://familyvio.csw.fsu.edu/our-new-research-trauma-informed-co-parenting-how-a-shift-in-compulsory-divorce-education-to-reflect-new-brain-development-research-can-promote-both-parents-and-childrens-best-inte/
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The Institute for Family Violence Studies
An overview of the advent and proliferation of statutorily mandated divorce education classes in the United States as well as their goals.
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Internal Dynamics of Families
Parent Education and Guidance
Family Law and Public Policy
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https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/resource/child-welfare-podcast-supporting-kinship-caregivers-part1
Length: 38 Minutes
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Children's Bureau of the U.S. Administration for Children & Families
This podcast highlights programs that connect kinship families with services when they must care for child relatives removed from their birth parents.
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Internal Dynamics of Families
Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
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http://www.hispanicresearchcenter.org/publications/hispanic-childrens-participation-in-early-care-and-education-a-look-at-utilization-patterns-of-chicagos-publicly-funded-programs/
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National Research Center on Hispanic Children & Families
A new report about the participation rates of low-income Hispanic 3 & 4-year-olds in center and home-based early care & education in Chicago.
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Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
Family Life Education Methodology
Parent Education and Guidance
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