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Family Sociology

• Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS)
  Een topinstituut voor onderzoek naar en informatie over het welzijn van gezinnen. Door middel van fundamenteel en toegepast onderzoek en het opstellen van programma's wil het AIFS inzicht vergroten in de sociaal-economische factoren die het effectief functioneren van gezinnen beïnvloeden.

• Famili@
  Database for the research of the family in Quéc. Presented by: Renée B.-Dandurand, Anne Deret and Richard Cloutier (Institut national de la recherche scientifique, INRS - Culture et Societé).

• Familis
  The World Organisation for Families WOF) wants to regroup on a worldwide basis contributors and researchers working for the bettering of families.

• Family.Com
  News and advice on parenting, including questions & answers with child health & development experts, movie reviews, guides to childrens products, fun stuff for kids, and local activities. One of the best family-specific sites in America.

• Family.org
  Information on all family-related topics from a Christian point of view. That’s were you’ll find instructions to shape a child’s will (‘guide them toward godliness’) and a sermon outline on ‘the sin of homosexuality' and ‘the dangers of a homosexual lifestyle’.

• Family science network
  Mailing list for family sociologists and therapists.

• Family Sociology - Yahoo!

• Graaf, Paul M. de / Kalmijn, Matthijs [2007]
  Divorce motives in a period of rising divorce : evidence from a Dutch life history survey
  Using survey data on ever-divorced men and women in The Netherlands, De Graaf and Kalmijn describe the motives people give for their divorce. They distinguish motives regarding four types of issues: (a) relational issues, (b) behavioral problems (e.g., substance abuse, violence), (c) problems about work and the division of labor, and (d) problems with friends or relatives. Their findings illustrate three important trends: the normalization of divorce, the psychologization of relationships, and the emancipation of women. Severe divorce motives (such as violence and infidelity) have become less important across divorce cohorts. The interpretation of this finding is in terms of a thresholdhypothesis: when the threshold for divorce is higher, marriages that end in divorce will be more problematic. Further, they find that there has been a trend in the direction of more relational motives, particularly among women. This trend is interpreted in terms of more general cultural trends in society such as a more individualistic and psychological approach to relationships. Another interesting finding is that problems in the realm of work and household labor have become more important motives for a divorce, particularly among women. This is consistent with the dramatic increase of emancipatory attitudes in the last decades, combined with a much slower change in the actual behavior of married couples.

• Graaf, Paul M. de / Kalmijn, Matthijs [2003]
  Intelligentie, opleiding en echtscheiding in Nederland (Intelligence, education and divorce in the Netherlands)
  Some sociologists argues that data for the Netherlands offer support to Herrnstein and Murray’s hypothesis that more intelligent persons have a lower divorce risk than less intelligent people. The replication of the data analyzed by Dronkers presented in this article shows that Dronkers’ conclusion is based on an incorrectly specified model in which educational attainment is not included. In a model that includes educational attainment the effect of intelligence is insignificant and educational attainment has a negative effect on divorce. This negative effect is conflicting with results from more representative data on the Netherlands.

• Holland Family History (HFA)
  Information on family research in the archives of Holland. Dutch & English versions.

• International Association for Relationship Research (IARR)
  IARR seeks to stimulate and support the scientific study of personal relationships and encourage cooperation among social scientists worldwide.

• Kalmijn, Matthijs / Graaf, Paul M. de / Janssen, Jacques P.G. [2005]
  Intermarriage and the risk of divorce in the Netherlands: The effets of differences in religion and in nationality, 1974-94
  In: Population Studies, 59(1), 2005, pp. 71-85.
  A textbook hypothesis about divorce is that heterogamous marriages are more likely to end in divorce than homogamous marriages. An analysis of the vital statistics on the population of the Netherlands provide a unique and powerful opportunity to test this hypothesis. All marriages formed between 1974 and 1984 (nearly 1 million marriages) are traced in the divorce records and multivariate logistic regression models are used to analyse the effects on divorce of heterogamy in religion and national origin. This confirms the hypothesis for marriages that cross the Protestant-Catholic or the Jewish-Gentile boundary. Heterogamy effects are weaker for marriages involving Protestants or unaffiliated persons. Marriages between Dutch and other nationalities have a higher risk of divorce, the more so the greater the cultural differences between the two groups. Overall, the evidence supports the view that, in the Netherlands, new group boundaries are more difficult to cross than old group boundaries.

• Kinship Terminology
  A hypertext guide to the systems used for classifying kinship and descent for groups such as the Iroquois, Hawaiian or Sudanese. Includes diagrams.

• Lasch, Chirstopher [1966]
  Divorce and the Family in America
  In: The Atlantic Monthly, November 1966.

• Nelson, Lynn
  The Family through Time
  From: Sociology in Global Perspective, Chapter 11.

• Ouders Online
  An electronic journal for young parents (in Dutch). It is concentrated at the role of fathers.

• Real Solutions for Families & Communities
  Helps people through transitions caused by violence, divorce, mental illness and substance abuse.

• Schwimmer, Brian - University of Manitoba (USA)
  Kinship and Social Organization - An Interactive Tutorial

• Sociology of the Family
  A guide to family relations as assumed most basic and fundamental building block for any society, and families as the key shock-absorbers of social change. Editor: Michael Kearl, Trinity University (Clearinghouse Guide)

• Wikipedia: Sociology_of_the_family

• Directories: DMOZ | Yahoo!

Children - Youth

• ADOL - Adolescence Directory On-Line
  A guide to information on adolescent issues. It is a service of the Center for Adolescent Studies at Indiana University. Educators, counselors, parents, researchers, health practitioners, and teens can use ADOL to find Web resources for many topics, including conflict & violence, fysical and mental health, and counselor resources.

• By the Sweat & Toil of Children: Efforts to Eliminate Child Labor
  The fifth volume in a series of annual reports on child labor. This report was produced by the staff of the International Child Labor Program and published by the US Department of Labor (DOL). It examines child labor in sixteen developing nations around the world. The report provides an overview of the types of work performed by the estimated 250 million child workers in these countries and their labor conditions. You will also find a review of child labor laws and enforcement efforts, descriptions of education initiatives aimed at increasing primary school enrollment, and examples of efforts to address the exploitation of working children.

• Centre for Europe's Children
  The Documentation and Information centre for the European Strategy for Children. The Council of Europe, in co-operation with UNICEF, intends to promote the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It is intended to “serve as inspiration and guidance for senior policy-makers and all those who actively support children's causes in their respective activities.”

• Child Abuse and Neglect Statistics - National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse (NCCAN)
  Info on child abuse and neglect in the USA.

• Child & Family WebGuide
  A guide to sites on the Internet with research-based information on children, child-rearing, parenting, and family issues. From Tufts University.

• Child Labour - ILO
  The International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC). IPEC’s aim is the elimination of child labour by strenghtening national capacities to address child labour problems, and by creating a worldwide movement tot combat it.
  • Factual information on the aims of the ILO's International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour (IPEC), priority target groups, strategy, partner organizations and geographical coverage.

  • Child Labour: Targeting the intolerable
    A report for the 86th Session International Labour Conference, 1998.

  • Combating the most intolerable forms of child labour: A global challenge
    Amsterdam, January 1997

  • Governing Body Documents on Child Labour
    Major policy documents, prepared for the Committee on Employment and Social Policy of the ILO's Governing Body. They describes the problems of child labour in the world today; possible action at the country level; and ILO action against child labour now and in the future.

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• Child Labor in America 1908-1912
  A sobering portfolio of mill-workers, newspaper vendors, coal miners, seamstresses, and fruit-pickers, all of whom are far too young. This fascinating online exhibit features original photo captions by Lewis W. Hine.

• Children of the Night
  Helping children who have been forced into prostitution or pornography.

• Child Research Net (CRN)
  A non-profit interactive research center on the internet to study, analyze and discuss the problems that children face in today's complex world. Its aim is to gather and exchange information regarding children and youth internationally, with a special focus on Japan and Asia.

• Child Rights
  Information on the progress towards universal acceptance of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the violations of this convention: child labour and the ultimate abuse: child prostitution. This report is part of the The Progress of Nations, published annually by the United Nations Children's Fund.

• Child Rights Information Network (CRIN)
  A newly formed global network of children's rights organisations seeking to support the effective exchange of information about children and their rights. CRIN is open to individuals, non-governmental organisations, UN agencies and educational institutions who are involved in children's rights, committed to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (the Convention or CRC) and to sharing information with others. The main aims are: support and promote the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child; help to meet the information needs of organisations and individuals working with and for children's rights; support organisations to gather, handle, produce and disseminate child rights information through training, capacity building and the development of electronic and non-electronic networking tools.

• Child Trends Databank
  An online information resource featuring the most up-to-date data and research on over 70 indicators of child and youth well-being, with new indicators added each month. Child Trends is a nonpartisan, nonprofit research firm.

• Children's House
  An interactive resource center - a meeting place for the exchange of information that serves the well being of children. It is dedicated to supporting the generation and dissemination of knowledge about children«s issues, facilitates the translation of the benefits of research and programming into policy and practice. Children's House is a cooperate initiative by AIFS, CIDEF, Children's Rights Centre, Childwatch, Consultative Group, CRIN, Family Life Development Centre, IIN, NOSEB, Radda Barnen, ISCA, UNICEF, UNESCO, World Bank and WHO.

• Children, Youth and Family Consortium (CYFC) - University of Minnesota, USA
  A pathway to information related to the health, education and welfare of children, youth and families. With theme areas like: fathers, adoption, young children, adolescents, parenting.

• Coalition against prostitution & child abuse in Thailand (CAPCAT)
  A volunteer project of people (Thai and foreign citizens) who try to find solutions to the problems of poverty, prostitution and the abuse of children in labor and prostitution. Many people are concerned about these problems, but far too few are actually doing anything constructive to solve these problems. This site offers some handles for change: resources on all aspects of these issues, descriptions of local and international projects working to find solutions, suggestions on how to help. The site also includes information on CAPCAT, a discussion board for exchanging ideas and suggestions, and a what's new page.

• Council of European National Youth Committees

• DMOZ - Child Abuse

• European Youth Forum (YFEU)
  Seeks to defend and promote the rights and interests of all young people and their organizations. It provides information on EU policy and legislation affecting young people and acts as a contact point for reaching young people in youth organizations throughout the world.

• European Youth Trends 1998
  Council of Europe experts in youth research written on initiative of the National Youth Research Correspondents.

• Grill, Christo Deneumostier [2000] (Cusco, Peru)
  Street Children of Cusco
  Cusco is a city where you can sense the great legacy that the Inkas left to the Peruvians. The dark side of this city is formed by its street children. In the last years many children shelters has been opened by national and foreign NGO's. The peruvian photojournalist Christo Deneumostier Grill visited one of the institutions that faces the cruel reality of these street children and tries to help them by giving them a shelter. In his article and pictures he portrays the life of the street children in Cusco, and of the work of the association Huch'uy Rana that tries to offer them a place to sleep at nights and educational chances.

• HIV / AIDS & Adolescents
  A guide to selected resources. From the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC National AIDS Clearinghouse.

• International Journal of Children's Rights
  Editor: Michael Freeman and Geraldine van Bueren.

• International Research Forum for research into television and children
  This newsletter from the Australian Broadcasting Authority gives information about worldwide research projects relating to children and television, as well as details of events, conferences and film festivals.

• Jeugdinformatie
  Information on care, management and methods in youth welfare work in the Netherlands. "Youth Information" is a site of the NIZW, The Netherlands Institute for Care and Welfare.

• Jeugdwerknet België
  Youth worknet in Belgium.

• Jeugdwerknet Nederland
  Youth worknet in the Netherlands collects links to Dutch youthwork-organizations with a web-presence and wants to stimulate contacts & communication among youthworkers in the Netherlands and elsewhere with the Youthwork Mailing List. A great site with much information on youthcentres and youth organizations, youth information points and community-houses. Dutch & English version.

• jeugdzorg.pagina.nl>
  Dutch links on youth welfare work.

• Journal of Adolescence
  Concentrates on issues of professional and academic importance. Provides a forum for all who are concerned with the nature of adolescence, whether they are teaching, carrying out research, providing a service, or offering treatment, guidance, or counseling. The aim of the journal is to foster good practice and encourage research by publishing both empirical and clinical studies together with high quality reviews.

• Kidlink
  Global networking for youth through the age of 15. In many languages.

• Kids Can Free The Children (FTK)
  An international youth movement that tries to establish programs and activities that will reduce the poverty and exploitation of children throughout the world, especially those in bonded, hazardous and exploitative child labour.

• Klocke, Eric /Batzell Dean, Zero Z.
  Children on the Titanic: Tragedy & Class
  In 1912 the Titanic, the largest ocean liner in the world, collided with an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank with the loss of over two-thirds of the people on board. One of the phrases that comes to mind in connection with the sinking of the Titanic is ’Women and children first”. In the imagination of many people men gallantly refrained from entering the limited number of lifeboats in order to allow women and children to escape. Nontheless, one had a better chance of surviving the sinking as a first-class man than as a third-class child. There were 105 children on the Titanic's maiden voyage. But there is surprisingly little information from the surviving of children of the Titanic, in proportion to the evidence available as a whole. In this non-linear essay the authors demonstrate that class -- both social class and the class system on vessels of the time -- shaped the lives and deaths of the children on the Titanic.

• National Center for Children in Poverty - (Columbia University School of Public Health).
  Current information and analysis on the subject; online reports and news releases, program activities, and state-by-state reports comparing policies affecting child poverty rates.

• National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information - National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect, USA.
  The NCCAN is a national resource for professionals seeking information on the prevention, identification, and treatment of child abuse and neglect.

• Pro Youth International
  The aim of this project is to create a youth related database with information on different structures and organisations working in the field of youth work in Europe, and to build links to all the existing information on the national/regional/local level. The project will be carried out by four partners: Finnish Youth Cooperation ALLIANSSI, Service National de la Jeunesse - National Youth Service (Luxembourg), Swedish Foundation for International Youth Exchange - SIU, and the Scottish Community Educational Council - SCEC. The project is grant-aided by the European Commission.

• State of the World's Children 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 : annual from UNICEF.
  It aims to fulfil three purposes. (1) It proposes an agenda against war as a vital step to prevent and alleviate the suffering of children in armed conflict. (2) It reviews the efforts of UNICEF to cope with children submerged not only in conflict but also in the silent emergencies of poverty and preventable disease. And it shows how many governments and communities, with UNICEF support, have made great progress in improving the health, nutrition and education of their children. (3) It retains the annual presentation of carefully assembled statistical data, so that the progress towards the year 2000 goals (adopted at the 1990 World Summit for Children), can be readily assessed. And remember "that the welfare of today's children is inseparably linked with the peace of tomorrow's world" [Henry R. Labouisse].

• Street Angels Africa
  Detailed information about the West African street children known as the almudos and extensive links to other projects dealing with street children in over 75 countries. Lots of document links as well. The site includes free photo galleries, videos and music. The information on the 150 million children that live in our city can be read in many languages.

• Youth and Environment Europe (YEE)
  YEE is a platform of many European youth organisations that study nature or are active for environment protection.The aim of YEE is to encourage youth to be involved in environment protection and to provide a platform where these organisations can work together.

• Youth Incentives
  The International Centre for Young People and Sexual Health. Youth Incentives is a non-governmental organization funded by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs (DGIS). It promotes and disseminated programmes for youth in the area of sexuality and sexual health.

• Youth Policy in the Netherlands
  Dutch policy and publications in the field of youth policy and the child care system. Includes many links to (youth)organizations. Maintained by The International Centre of the Netherlands Institute of Care and Welfare at the request of the Netherlands Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport.

• YouthWork.Net-Europe
  Internet resources for youthworkers around the world.

• Youthwork Links and Ideas
  A site for everyone who works with youth and for youth themselves. Editor: Barbara Kawliche.

• Youth Research Centre - School of Education at The University of Melbourne

Editor	dr. Albert Benschop Social & Behavioral Studies University of Amsterdam
Created	August, 1996
Last modified	10th January, 2013