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from Zippy Weekly Videos

Uncle Jim's Dairy Farm (1963)

In another vintage short film, George and Betty get to spend the summer with their cousins on Uncle Jim’s farm. Doing chores, calling hogs, milking cows — it’s all here, straight from 1963.

from New research available on trends in grandparent caregiving in U.S.

Children Living With and Cared For by Grandparents: State-Level Data From the American Community Survey

Click the above link to read this report.

from New research available on trends in grandparent caregiving in U.S.

Grandparents Living With Children: State-Level Data from the American Community Survey

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from Zippy Weekly Videos

The role of attachment in infancy on later mental and physical health outcomes

What is the best baby gift? A consistently sensitive caregiver. Insecure attachment in children is a public health problem, as it makes children vulnerable to a whole host of adverse outcomes in adulthood, for both physical and mental health. This video from the Psychology Foundation of Canada provides a short overview of the importance of attachment in human development.

from New report released on teens with lesbian mothers

Article: Adolescents with Lesbian Mothers Describe Their Own Lives

Childhood Trauma and its Effect on Healthy Development

This brief discusses healthy child development and how it is impacted by trauma. The brief also discusses how resilience and the presence of one or more "protective factors" such as social connections and knowledge of parenting and child development in "the family, community, and greater environment helps combat the negative outcomes of child abuse, neglect, and other types of trauma."

from Future of Children—fall 2012 journal on literacy released

Journal: Literacy Challenges for the Twenty-First Century

from Zippy Weekly Videos

Mister Rogers Remixed

Beginning in 1966, the late Fred Rogers delighted children, parents and educators in his TV neighborhood of make believe. We all assumed his “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” theme song would never be equaled. In this PBS production, talented audio engineers “auto-tuned” Mister Rogers and created a brand new song. Enjoy him with a whole new sound!

from Video Lexicon

Joyce Arditti on parental incarceration

Professor Joyce Arditti at Virginia Tech talks about her research on parental incarceration and the transformative effect it had on her scholarship. Criminology has long been examined in the social sciences. However, Dr. Arditti has added a family lens to this area of study. Her ground-breaking research is now published in her new book on parental incarceration.

from New development in family policy

SB-1172 Sexual orientation change efforts

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