Resource Guide:
Marriage and Family

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships (access through Credo Reference Database)
• FPG Child Development Institute
• Child & Family Web Guide
• CYFERnet: Children, Youth and Families Education and Research Network
• Children, Youth and Family Consortium Electronic Clearinghouse
• National Center for Early Development & Learning (NCEDL)
• National Child Care Information Center
• National Council on Family Relations
• Administration for Children & Families
• Child Stats
• Child Trends
• National Adolescent Health Information Center
• FedStats
• Census Bureau
• Department of Health and Human Services
• Department of Education
• DOJ Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• Marriage
• Family
• Marriage law
• Marriage Counseling
• Home
• Single People
• Married life
• Love
• Courtship
• Matrimony
• Fatherhood
• Family Violence
• Wedlock
• Motherhood
• Dual-Career Families
• Communication in marriage
• Parenting
• Birth Control
• Adultery
• Domestic Relations
• Intimacy
• Divorce
• Custody of Children
• Sex Differences
• Annulment
• Stepfamilies
• Masculinity
• Remarriage
• Commitment
• Feminity

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• Education Research Complete
• Encyclopedia Britannica
• ERIC
• JSTOR
• Oxford Reference
• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• Adolescence
• Adolescent Psychiatry
• Children
• Children and Schools
• Children and Society
• Children Today
• Child and Family Social Work
• Child Welfare
• Child: Care, Health, and Development
• Family Medicine and Community Health
• Family and Community History
• Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal
• Family Coordinator
• Family Court Review
• Family Economics and Nutrition Review
• Family Law Quarterly
• Family Life Coordinator
• Family Matters
• Family Planning Perspectives
• Family Process
• Family Relations
• Journal of Adolescent and Adult Literacy
• Population Reports
• Youth Studies

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.