The Family in America: An Encyclopedia

An incisive, multidisciplinary look at the American family over the past 200 years, written by respected scholars and researchers.

A

Abortion

AD/HD

Adolescence

Adoptive Parents

Adultery

Affection as a Basis for Marriage

African American Families

After-School Care

Aid to Families with Dependent Children

AIDS and the Family

Alcohol and Drug Abuse in Families

Alimony

American Family Association

Anorexia Nervosa

Apprenticeship

Asian American Families

B

Baby Boom

Baby M

Baby Sitting

Banns

Birth Control

Birth Order, Theories of

Blended Families

Breast-Feeding

Bulimia

Burgess, Ernest W.

C

Cambridge Group for History of Population and Social Structure

Celibacy

Child Abuse

Child Advocacy

Child Care

Child Custody

Child Development

Child Health Improvement and Protection Act of 1968

Child Labor

Child Welfare Policy

Childbirth, Medical Practices of

Children as Parents

Children's Bureau, U.S.

The Children's Defense Fund

Common-Law Marriage

Communes, Families in

The Companionate Family

Complex Marriage

Cooperative Extension Service

Courtship, History of

Cults, Families in

D

Davis, Katharine Bement

Decoration Day

Delinquency

Demography of the Family

Department of Housing and Urban Development, U.S.

Disabilities and Family Life

Discipline and Punishment

Divorce, History of

Domestic Violence

Drug and Alcohol Abuse

E

Early Childhood Education

Earned Income Tax Credit

Eating Disorders

Educational Achievement of Parents

Ellis, Havelock

Erikson, Erik

Eugenics and the American Family

Extended Family

F

Family and Film

Family and Medical Leave Act

Family and the Law

Family as a Political Theme

The Family Bed

Family Business

Family Courts

Family Decline in the Twentieth Century

Family Medicine

Family Photography

Family Preferences and Immigration

Family Therapy

Family Vacations

Farm Families

Fatherhood

Father's Day

Feminine Mystique

Fertility

First-Cousin Marriage

Freedmen's Families

Freud, Sigmund

Funerals

G

Gender Roles in the American Family

Genealogy

Gerontology

Gifted Children in the Family

Grandparents

The Great Society

H

Hall, G. Stanley

Head Start

Higher Education, Access to

The Hispanic Family

Historiography of the American Family

Home Economics

Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters

Home Schooling

Homelessness

Homosexuality and the Family

I

Immigrant Families, Experience of

Immunization

Infant Mortality

Inheritance

Interracial Families

J

Japanese American Families during World War II, Internment of

Jewish Families

Juvenile justice

K

Key, Ellen

Kidnapping

Kinsey, Alfred

L

La Leche League

Latchkey Children

Leisure, Recreation, and Amusements

Literature, Images of Families in Children's

Little League

Lynd, Robert and Helen

M

Marriage

Marriage Counseling

Maternal Mortality

Matriarchy

Martilineal Societies

Medicare and Medicaid

Middle-Class Family

Middletown

Military Families: The Costs of Commitment

Miscegenation

Mormon Polygamy

Motherhood

Mother's Day

N

National Congress of Colored Parents and Teachers

Neighborhoods

O

The Oneida Community

Orphan Trains

Orphanages

P

Parental Involvement in the Schools

Parenting Education

Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays

The Parents' Movement for Special Education in the United States

Parent-Teacher Association

Parsons, Talcott

Paternity Suits

Patriarchy

Patrilineal Societies

Pediatrics

The Pill

Planned Parenthood

Polio

Polygamy

Poverty

Premarital Sex

Prenatal Care

R

Race and the Family in American Law

Religion and Family

Remarriage, History of

Reunions, Family

Richards, Ellen Swallow

Roe v. Wade

S

Sanger, Margaret

Sex Education

Sexual Revolutions

Shaker Family

Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act

Single-Parent Families

Smith-Lever Act

Social Security

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

Spock, Dr. Benjamin

Stepparents

Suburbanization

Supplemental Security Income

Syphilis

T

Teenage Pregnancy

Twins

U

Urban Renewal

V

Venereal Disease

Virginity

W

Watson, John B.

Weddings

White House Conferences on Children

Widowhood

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