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

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

Click the above link to read this report.

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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.

Global Families

Global Families is a good textbook for a overview of families and would work well for an Introduction to family studies or a general survey course in the field.

from New report released on teens with lesbian mothers

Article: Adolescents with Lesbian Mothers Describe Their Own Lives

from Pew report: How the faithful voted

Report: How the Faithful Vote: 2012 Preliminary Analysis

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from New report released on women's employment rate

Report: Women's Employment Rate, 2010

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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."

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Building Stronger Communities for Better Health: Moving From Science to Policy and Practice - Video Recording

Brian Smedley, Ph.D., Vice President and Director of the Health Policy Institute of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. The Institute's mission is to generate policy recommendations on long-standing health equity concerns. Dr. Smedley was co-founder of The Opportunity Agenda, an organization dedicated to ensuring equity in health care reform.

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"Caregiving is Just What Families Do": Challenges of Aging Families and Health - Video Recording

Sara Honn Qualls, Ph.D., Kraemer Family Professor of Psychology and Director of the Gerontology Center at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. She is a practicing clinical psychologist who helped establish the CU Aging Center in Colorado Springs which provides mental health services for older adults.

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Transgender Youth - Video Recording

Kim Pearson, Executive Director, TransYouth Family Allies

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