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Grandparents raising grandchildren

Stepfamilies / blended families

Multiracial families

Divorce

Single parent families

Children with physical disabilities

Learning disabilities /
special education / autism

Homeless families / poverty
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Family violence / abuse / neglect

Parental incarceration

Immigrant families

LGBTQ families
Gay parents / gay children

Foster care / adoption

Adoption: general & international

Military families / deployment

Cultural, ethnic, or religious diversity

KIDS COUNT - The Status of Children in the U.S.

KIDS COUNT Data Book, 2019 [70 pg PDF]
A national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the United States. Access statistics and rankings by state. By the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT Project. Specific indicators for the State of Hawaii.

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The American Family by Karen Duda (Editor)
Call Number: HQ536 .A54653 2003
This book explores the shifting demographics of family life in the United States, the changing face of marriage, the various crises faced by many families, and methods of planning parenthood.
Families: Traditional and New Structures by Paul McCaffrey
Call Number: HQ536 .F3346 2013
Discusses the evolution of what constitutes a family and the impact on individuals and society.
Marriage and the Family: Diversity and Strengths by David H. Olson; John DeFrain
Call Number: HQ536 .O46 1997
The Parent App: Understanding Families in the Digital Age by Lynn Schofield Clark
Call Number: HQ799.2.I5 C59 2013
This book provides what families have been sorely lacking: smart, sensitive, and effective strategies for coping with the dilemmas of digital and mobile media in modern life.
Divorce with Decency, 5th Ed. by Bradley A. Coates
Call Number: HQ834 C62 2017
This completely revised and updated fifth edition of the award-winning Divorce with Decency includes the most current research, statistics, and insights on the effects of divorce on spouses, their children, and society overall.
Child Poverty in America Today
Call Number: HV741 .C4875 2007
Families and children; Health and medical care; The promise of education; Children and the state.
International Adoptions by Margaret Haerens
Call Number: HV875.5 .I5735 2011
Explore all sides of the debate.
The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age
Call Number: HQ784.I58 S735 2013
Drawing on real-life stories from her clinical work with children and parents, and her consulting work with educators and experts across the country, Steiner-Adair offers insights and advice that can help parents achieve greater under-standing, authority, and confidence as they come up against the tech revolution unfolding in their living rooms.

Books for research

The Transgender Child
Call Number: HQ77.9 .B75 2008
Covering developmental, legal, medical, and school issues, The Transgender Child is a comprehensive, first-of-its-kind guidebook for the unique challenges that thousands of families face raising children who step outside of the pink or blue box.
Race and Family: A Structural Approach by Roberta L. Coles
Call Number: HQ536 .C714 2016
Race and Family focuses on structural factors impacting all families, such as demographic, economic, and historic trends, which illuminate the similarities and distinctions among and within racial and ethnic groups.
Cultural Diversity and Families: Expanding Perspectives
Call Number: HQ536 .C853 2007
The authors move the dialogue about culturally diverse families to a new level by topically discussing the issues affecting culturally diverse families rather than organizing the information by racial and or ethnic groups.
Multiethnicity and Multiethnic Families
Call Number: HQ536 .M88 2010
Guided by the increasing number of cross-cultural adoptions, interracial marriages and the resulting multiethnic families and children, social and behavioral scientists provide both scientific documentation and insights about and into these emerging family systems.
Grandparents As Parents, Second Edition by Sylvie de Toledo; Deborah Edler Brown
Call Number: HQ759.9 .D423 2013
Wise, honest, moving stories show how numerous other grandparents are surviving and thriving in their new roles. Updated throughout, and reflecting current laws and policies affecting families, the second edition features new discussions of kids' technology use and other timely issues.
Resilient Grandparent Caregivers by Bert, Bert Hayslip, Jr. (Editor); Gregory C. Smith (Editor)
Call Number: HQ759.9 .R475 2013
The study of grandparents raising grandchildren, now almost two decades old, has tended to have a negative bias, emphasizing the difficulties such people face and the negative impact that grandparent caregiving has on them physically, socially, and emotionally. This edited book seeks to reverse this trend by taking a positive approach to understanding grandparent caregivers, focusing on their resilience and resourcefulness.
Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships by Patricia L. Papernow
Call Number: HQ759.92 .P353 2013
This book draws on current research, a wide variety of clinical modalities, and thirty years of clinical work with stepfamily members to describe the special challenges stepfamilies face.
Focus on Single-Parent Families by Annice D. Yarber (Editor); Paul M. Sharp (Editor)
Call Number: HQ759.915 .F63 2010
This book provides a range of cutting-edge research articles and essays on what has become the most dynamic change in family structure in U.S. history. Throughout, the book gauges the impact of the increasing number of single-parent families on the nation as a whole, particularly in regard to policies concerning family welfare, children's services and health care, schools, and other essential social institutions.
Families Like Mine: Children of Gay Parents Tell It Like It Is by Abigail Garner
Call Number: HQ777.8 .G37 2005
Abigail Garner was five years old when her parents divorced and her dad came out as gay. Like the millions of children growing up in these families today, she often found herself in the middle of the political and moral debates surrounding lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) parenting.
Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial World
Call Number: HQ777.9 .C426 2016
Research continues to uncover early childhood as a crucial time when we set the stage for who we will become...This book is drawn from extensive research and interviews with sixty-eight parents of multiracial children. It is the first to examine the complex task of supporting our youngest around being "two or more races" and Asian while living amongst "post-racial" ideologies.
When Parents Part: How Mothers and Fathers Can Help Their Children Deal with Separation and Divorce
Call Number: HQ814 .L425 2015
The author's child-centered advice, profoundly thoughtful and thorough, tackles the issues from every angle—emotional, scientific, psychological, practical, legal—covering everything from access, custody, and financial considerations to managing separate sets of technology in two houses.
Understanding Families: Supportive Approaches to Diversity, Disability, and Risk, 2 Ed. by Marci J. Hanson; Eleanor W. Lynch
Call Number: HV697 .H35 2013
This updated bestselling text, weaves in cutting-edge research on social, demographic, and economic changes and connects the research to best practices in family-centered care. With a strong emphasis on family resilience, this book gets pre-service and in-service professionals ready to work with a broad range of families with diverse structures, backgrounds, and circumstances.
Inside Transracial Adoption
Call Number: HV875.64 .S74 2013
Revised second edition. Drawing on research, decades of experience as adoption professionals, and their own personal experience of adopting transracially, Beth Hall and Gail Steinberg offer insights for all transracial adoptive parents - from prospective first-time adopters to experienced veterans - and those who support them.
To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care
Call Number: HV881 .B4193 2014
A New York Times Notable Book..."Casts a searing eye on the labyrinth that is the American foster care system."
Child Abuse and Culture
Call Number: HV6626.5 .F66 2008
This book provides a framework for culturally competent practice with children and families in child maltreatment cases. Numerous workable strategies and concrete examples are presented to help readers address cultural concerns at each stage of the assessment and intervention process.
All Alone in the World: Children of the Incarcerated
Call Number: HV8886.U5 B47 2005
A look at the parents and over two million children in the United States affected by current incarceration policy. [Arrest --- Sentencing --- Visiting --- Grandparents --- Foster care --- Reentry --- Legacy]
Disrupted Childhoods: Children of Women in Prison
Call Number: HV8886.U5 S54 2011
This book offers a perspective that recognizes differences over the long course of a family's interaction with the criminal justice system. Presenting an unparalleled view into the children's lives both before and after their mothers are imprisoned, this book reveals the many challenges they face from the moment such a critical caregiver is arrested to the time she returns home from prison.
Diversities in Early Childhood Education: Rethinking and Doing
Call Number: LB1139.23 .D58 2008
Drawing from the literature on ability, class, culture, ethnicity, gender, languages, race, and sexual orientation, this book presents a forward-looking account of how diversity could improve the educational experience of children from birth to age three.
Learning Disabilities - A to Z: A Complete Guide to Learning Disabilities from Preschool to Adulthood
Call Number: LC4705 .S62 2010
Filled with anecdotes and advice, this updated edition helps parents understand the nature of their children's learning disabilities.
Deployment: Strategies for Working with Kids in Military Families
Call Number: UB403 .P387 2009
Children with parents in the military face unfamiliar and complicated emotions. This comprehensive handbook is for civilians and military personnel who work with or care for children who experience separation through deployment, death, or divorce.

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Parental Incarceration and the Family by Joyce A. Arditti
Call Number: E-BOOK
Psychological and social effects of imprisonment on children, parents, and caregivers.
Single by Chance, Mothers by Choice by Rosanna Hertz
Call Number: E-BOOK
A remarkable number of women today are taking the daunting step of having children outside of marriage. The author offers the first full-scale account of this fast-growing phenomenon, revealing why these middle class women took this unorthodox path and how they have managed to make single parenthood work for them.
The Social Dynamics of Family Violence
Call Number: E-BOOK
From child abuse and neglect to intimate partner violence and elder abuse, the authors ask students to consider how social inequality, especially gender inequality, contributes to tensions and explosive tendencies in family settings.
Marriage and Family: Perspectives and Complexities by H. Elizabeth Peters (Editor); Claire Kamp M. Dush (Editor)
Call Number: E-BOOK
Approaching this topic from a variety of perspectives, including historical, cross-cultural, gendered, demographic, socio-biological, and social-psychological viewpoints, the editors highlight the complexity of the modern American family and the growing indeterminacy of its boundaries.
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Homeless Children and Families in Small-Town America
Call Number: E-BOOK
Homelessness in small towns and rural areas is on the rise. Drawing on interviews with and case studies of three hundred children and their families, with supporting statistics from federal, state, and private agencies, the author illustrates the impact this social problem has upon education, health, and the economy.
Working with Custodial Grandparents
Call Number: E-BOOK
Individual topics include case studies, intervention research, support groups, cross-discipline approaches to establishing caregiving guidelines, the psychological adaptation of grandchildren, building parenting skills, and grandparent caregivers of children with developmental disabilities.
To Grandmother's House We Go and Stay: Perspectives on Custodial Grandparents
Call Number: E-BOOK
This book addresses the growing phenomenon of grandparents assuming responsibility for raising their grandchildren.
The Right to Be Parents: LGBT Families and the Transformation of Parenthood by Carlos A. Ball
Call Number: E-BOOK
The Right to be Parents is the first book to provide a detailed history of how LGBT parents have turned to the courts to protect and defend their relationships with their children.
Future Families: Diverse Forms, Rich Possibilities
Call Number: E-BOOK
Explores the variety of family forms which characterize our contemporary culture, while addressing the implications of these increasingly diverse family units on child development.
Divorce and the Special Needs Child
Call Number: E-BOOK
Going through a divorce is always tough, but when a child with special needs is involved it can be especially challenging. This book takes a clear and comprehensive look at every aspect of the legal divorce process, addressing all of the legal issues that divorcing parents of children with special needs face.
Coming Out, Coming Home: Helping Families Adjust to a Gay or Lesbian Child by Michael C. LaSala
Call Number: E-BOOK
The discovery that a child is lesbian or gay can send shockwaves through a family. A mother will question how she's raised her son; a father will worry that his daughter will experience discrimination. From the child's perspective, gay and lesbian youth fear their families will reject them and that they will lose financial and emotional support.
Children with Disabilities, Seventh Edition
Call Number: E-BOOK
An unparalleled text from the leading voices in the disability field, Children with Disabilities is the cornerstone resource future professionals will keep year after year to support their important work with children and families.
Family Studies: An Introduction by Jon Bernardes
Call Number: E-BOOK
This book provides a comprehensive understanding of contemporary family living.
Children in Family Contexts: Perspectives on Treatment by Lee Combrinck-Graham (Editor)
Call Number: E-BOOK
This text and professional resource provides a practical guide to family-based therapy for childhood emotional and behavioral problems.
Courage after Fire: Coping Strategies for Troops Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and Their Families
Call Number: E-BOOK
This book offers soldiers and their families a comprehensive guide to dealing with the all-too-common repercussions of combat duty, including posttraumatic stress symptoms, anxiety, depression, and substance abuse.
Drug Addiction and Families by Marina Barnard
Call Number: E-BOOK
This book is an exploration of the impact of drug use on families, and of the extent to which current practice meets the needs of families as well as problem drug users.
Disrupted Childhoods: Children of Women in Prison
Call Number: E-BOOK
Presenting an unparalleled view into the children's lives both before and after their mothers are imprisoned, this book reveals the many challenges they face from the moment such a critical caregiver is arrested to the time she returns home from prison.

Contemporary Grandparenting
Call Number: E-BOOK
With rampant changes to family structures over the past decades, grandparenting has gained new and profound social and economic significance.

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New Book - DIVORCE

When Parents Part: How Mothers and Fathers Can Help Their Children Deal with Separation and Divorce by Penelope Leach
A practical, comprehensively researched guide to doing the best for your child during and after separation or divorce. Recent research clarifies why parents--fathers as much as mothers--are so crucial to children of all ages and how their separation can turn children's lives upside down. Drawing on the latest scientific findings, as well as on her many years of professional and personal work with children, Penelope Leach describes how parents can minimize the impact of separation and divorce on children through the six stages of a child's life, from infancy to adulthood.

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