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• Administration on Aging (AoA)
  Includes Elders & Families resource page.

• Adolescence Directory On-Line (ADOL)
  An electronic guide to information on adolescent issues. Presented by the Center for Adolescent Studies at Indiana University.

• Child Welfare Information Gateway

• Children's House
  “Children's House is an interactive resource center — a meeting place for the exchange of information that serves the well being of children.” Offers subject groupings of links to other resources.

• Family and Consumer Sciences (UD Cooperative Extension)

• CYFERnet
  CYFERnet's Web site evaluates and links research based web sources on children, youth and family resources of all the public land-grant universities and from U.S. government agencies. Children, Youth and Families Education and Resource Network.

• Department of Education
  Includes full text of many Department of Education publications.

• Early Childhood Education On Line
  A professional “Listserv” and website.

• Human Development & Family Life Education Resource Center

• National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)

• The National Council on Family Relations (NCFR)

• Senior Citizen's Resources (USA.gov)

• Violence Against Women Online Resources (VAWOR)

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• USA.gov
  Comprehensive portal of web resources from the United States government.

• Google
  Internet search engine.

• Internet Public Library (IPL)

• Librarians' Index to the Internet

• Yahoo
  Offers interesting subject groups, such as “Education” and “Society and Culture.” Yahoo is also a search engine for Internet resources.

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In addition to the Library subscriptions listed on the Electronic Journals for Human Development and Family Studies page, there are several journals and newsletters available free on the Internet. Here is a sampling of titles:

• Human Development & Family Life Bulletin
  A newsletter for professionals to exchange information about research and practice issues concerning children, youth, and families. Published by the Ohio State University, College of Human Ecology, Department of Family Relations & Human Development.

• Journal of Extension
  A peer-reviewed journal from the Cooperative Extension System.

• Classics in the History of Psychology
  A website which provides the full text of historically significant books and articles from the scholarly literature of psychology and allied disciplines. All documents are in the public domain.

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• APAStyle.org (APA)
  Web site for the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, used for writing papers in the social sciences. Includes the guide to citing Electronic References. From the American Psychological Association.

• Scholarly (Professional) Journals Versus Popular (General) Magazines

• Scholarly vs Popular Sources

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• ALA Resources for Parents, Teens and Kids
  From the American Library Association. Includes “700+ Great Sites” useful for and suitable for children.

• Family Education.com (from Family Education Network)

• National PTA

• O.A.S.I.S.
  Online Asperger Syndrome Information & Support. Offers support to parents of Asperger Syndrome children.

• Parents
  Resources from the U.S. Department of Education.

• SafeKids.Com

• Web sites for kids:
  • Kids.gov
  • Kids' Pages (U.S. Government)
  • Ben's Guide to US Government for Kids

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• AgingStats.gov
  A website maintained by multiple federal agencies, designed to provide statistics on the aging population all in one place. Sponsored by the Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics.

• Census 2000 School District Profiles
  Provides access to demographic data for all U.S. school districts derived from the Census 2000 P.L. 94-171 (Redistricting) File. Part of the Special Tabulation Program (STP2). “This extended set of tabulations provides one of the largest, most detailed sources of children's demographics ever developed by the U.S. Census Bureau and the largest source of children's characteristics available from Census 2000.” Provided through National Center for Education Statistics.

• ChildStats.gov
  Sponsored by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. Includes the publication America's Children: Key National Indicators of Child Well-Being.

• Expenditures on Children by Families

• Guttmacher Institute
  A collection of resources to promote research, policy analysis, and public education regarding sexual activity, reproduction and family formation, in the United States and throughout the world. Includes a Custom TableMaker.

• Health Topics A-Z: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / CDC)
  Guide to many CDC statistical reports. Includes articles in the MMWR: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. See subjects: aging, child, children, etc.

• Kids Count
  Web site created by the Annie E. Casey Foundation. Provides statistics on the status and well-being children, on a state basis. Read or download the data book or generate custom graphs, maps, ranked lists, or state by state profiles. Site has many sources, including the Kids Count Data Book.

• National Center for Health Statistics

• PRB's DataFinder
  A database containing population, health, and environment data for more than 220 countries. Allows you can create your own tables of demographic information, such as, population, fertility rates, infant mortality rates, HIV/AIDS prevalence. Produced by the Population Reference Bureau.

• State of the World's Children
  Links to full text of recent editions of this publication and to some other UNICEF publications. Also see Monitoring and statistics.

• The Structure of Family Violence: An Analysis of Selected Incidents

• U.S. Census Bureau
  Includes a news section (containing press releases and the Statistical Briefs series) and a listings of subjects. Includes:
  • American FactFinder
  • Statistical Abstract of the United States

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