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https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=5008
This report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and National Center for Education Statistics provides statistical information on the nature of crime in schools.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
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http://www.childtrends.org/?publications=social-indicators-predicting-postsecondary-success
This Child Trends study identified multiple indicators for increasing the odds of completion of post-secondary education.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
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http://www.childtrends.org/?indicators=adverse-experiences
This Child Trends indicator examines trends among children within nine adverse experiences.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Internal Dynamics of Families
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http://cepr.net/publications/reports/expanding-federal-family-medical-leave-coverage
This early 2014 report suggests that expanding the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) would provide coverage for 34 million working Americans.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Family Law and Public Policy
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http://www.clasp.org/resources-and-publications/publication-1/2014-04-09-Inequities-and-Paid-Leave-Brief.pdf
This CLASP brief addresses which groups are least likely to have access to paid-leave options through their jobs.
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Family Law and Public Policy
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http://worldfamilymap.org/2014/
The World Family Map Project monitors global changes in the areas of family structure, family socioeconomics, family processes, and family culture.
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http://www.childtrends.org/?publications=the-youngest-americans-a-statistical-portrait-of-infants-and-toddlers-in-the-united-states
This report from Child Trends focuses on infants and toddlers, their parents, communities, and the resources that exist to support them.
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Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
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https://www.mathematica-mpr.com//publications/pdfs/earlychildhood/EBHV_makingreplication.pdf
This report from Mathematica Policy Research describes the results of a national evaluation of replication of evidence-based home visiting programs.
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http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR499.html
This report from the Rand Corporation summarizes a study designed to describe the magnitude of military caregiving in the United States today.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Internal Dynamics of Families
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http://www.healthymarriageinfo.org/resource-detail/index.aspx?rid=2861
This report addresses what we have learned about the design and implementation of government-sponsored marriage and relationship education (MRE) programs.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Internal Dynamics of Families
Interpersonal Relationships
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http://www.hfrp.org/publications-resources/browse-our-publications/research-spotlight-families-and-digital-media-in-young-children-s-learning
How do young children access and use digital media? How are families engaging with their children's use of digital media?
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Parent Education and Guidance
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http://nationalmarriageproject.org/wordpress/resources/facilitatingforever/
This report from the National Marriage Project documents policy experiments designed to help couples form and sustain healthy relationships and marriages.
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Family Law and Public Policy
Internal Dynamics of Families
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http://kff.org/other/issue-brief/a-teacher-in-the-living-room-educational/
This report looks at electronic media products for very young children – babies, toddlers, and preschoolers – that are marketed to parents as educational.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Family Resource Management
Parent Education and Guidance
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http://kff.org/other/report/zero-to-six-electronic-media-in-the/
In 2003, this study was one of the only large-scale national studies on the role of media in the lives of infants, toddlers and preschoolers in America.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
Parent Education and Guidance
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http://web5.soc.northwestern.edu/cmhd/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/ParentingAgeDigitalTechnology.REVISED.FINAL_.2014.pdf
The Center on Media and Human Development at Northwestern University explores how parents are incorporating digital technology into parenting.
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Parent Education and Guidance
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http://www.childtrends.org/publications/reducing-teen-childbearing-among-latinos-an-innovative-anti-poverty-strategy/
With a focus on Latinos, this series reviews trends on adolescent sex, contraceptive use, and childbearing.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
Human Sexuality
Parent Education and Guidance
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http://www.childtrends.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Pregnancy-and-Childbearing-updated-12-131.pdf
This Adolescent Health Highlight presents key research findings about teen pregnancy and childbearing.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
Human Sexuality
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https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/USCENSUS/bulletins/969f1e
A series of tabulations from the U.S. Census Bureau using data from the 2013 Annual Social and Economic Supplement to the Current Population Survey.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
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http://www.urban.org/research/publication/nonstandard-work-schedules-and-well-being-low-income-families
In 2010–11, 28% of lower-income workers, and 20% of all workers, worked most of their hours between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. or on weekends.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Family Resource Management
Parent Education and Guidance
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https://www.childstats.gov/americaschildren/index.asp
America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2013 is a compendium of indicators depicting both promises and challenges confronting young people.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Family Resource Management
Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
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http://www.bgsu.edu/content/dam/BGSU/college-of-arts-and-sciences/NCFMR/documents/FP/FP-13-13.pdf
This profile examines demographic changes in women's marriage patterns over the past century.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Interpersonal Relationships
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http://www.childtrends.org/publications/home-front-alert-the-risks-facing-young-children-in-military-families-2/
Child Trends examines the special circumstances characterizing the lives of children under age six in military families.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
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http://www.extension.umn.edu/family/cyfc/our-programs/ereview/docs/June2013ereview.pdf
This issue of the U. of MN Extension Children, Youth & Family Consortium Children's Mental Health eReview examines the needs of children with incarcerated parents.
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
Human Growth and Development Across the Lifespan
Internal Dynamics of Families
Parent Education and Guidance
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http://www.bgsu.edu/content/dam/BGSU/college-of-arts-and-sciences/NCFMR/documents/FP/FP-13-12.pdf
The National Center for Family and Marriage Research has a free paper available: "Trends in Cohabitation: Over Twenty Years of Change, 1987-2010."
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Families and Individuals in Societal Contexts
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