Sociology
Generation X - Baby Busters
Age Data – U.S.
Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/age.html
Selected data of the Boomers
Adam Rifkin’s Generation X
http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~adam/LEAD/genx.html
If you think you’re in Generation X, then you probably are.
If you care about our collective future, then you definitely are.
Generation X, Baby Busters
http://www.babybusters.org/
Information about those born between 1946 and 1964.
Generation X Fact Sheet
http://users.metro2000.net/~stabbott/genxintro.htm
Generation X
http://www.cc.colorado.edu/Dept/EC/generationx96/Genx/
This site links to definitions, facts and
figures, websites, television, music and movies.
Great Xpectations
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1997/dom/970609/society.great_xpectat.html
The so-called Generation X turns out to be full of go-getters
who are just doing it, but their way. This is an article from Time Magazine.
Guide to Recent US Generations
http://www.uta.fi/FAST/US7/REF/genguide.html
From the University of
Tampere (Finland) whose focus is diverse research and teaching, this article
focuses on society, its economy, health and welfare of individuals. What
years or other criteria "define" these generations, and what significance do
they have for studies of U.S. demographics, popular culture, or marketing?
A Politics for Generation X
http://facstaff.uww.edu/mohanp/genxpolitics.html
An article from a faculty member of the University of
Wisconsin at Whitewater who is now the CEO of the New America Foundation,
http://www.newamerica.net/
The National Association of Baby Boomers
http://www.babyboomers.org/
The stated intentions of this group is to
assist boomers unite for change. Areas of concern are Social Security,
taxes, financial planning, health and other issues.
The Baby Boomers Headquarters
|http://www.bbhq.com/sixties.htm
The
Sixties Section: What happened in the Sixties
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Home Schooling
CATO Institute
http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-294.html
The victory of home
schooled 13-year-old Rebecca Sealfon in the 1997 National Spelling Bee
brought new attention to the growing phenomenon of home schooling.
Dissatisfied with the performance of government-run schools, more and more
American families have begun teaching their children at home. This Policy
Analysis discusses the reasons why home schooling has become so popular and
the historical background of the movement.
ERIC – Education Resources Information Center
http://www.eric.ed.gov/archives/homesch.html
Information for parents about home schooling.
http://askeric.org/
The ERIC database is the
world's largest source of education information, with more than 1 million
abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and
practice. Enter home schooling for a list of documents on the subject.
Home Education Magazine
http://www.home-ed-magazine.com
Home Education Magazine presents free online newsletters, discussion boards,
a networking list, and selections from the magazine, including articles,
interviews, columnists, resources, reviews and more.
Home School Legal
Defense Association
http://www.hslda.org
Founded in 1983, the HSLDA has fought a number of battles at both the state
and national levels to help protect the rights of parents to teach their
children at home. The site contains, issues, laws, statistics, federal news
and more.
HomeSchool Association
http://www.hsc.org/
This group supports and promotes the entire spectrum of home schooling,
provides information, and monitors and influences legislation.
Homeschooling
http://homeschooling.about.com/
Articles and 100 links
Time.com
http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101010827/cover.html
Home schools putting the pressure on public schools
National Center for
Education Statistics
http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2001/HomeSchool/
The Parent Survey of the National Household Education Surveys Program, 1999
provides a comprehensive set of information that may be used to estimate the
number and characteristics of homeschoolers in the United States.
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Homeless Children
California
Department of Education
http://www.cde.ca.gov/cilbranch/homeless/homelesstoc.html
Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act, programs and resources.
Education of Homeless
Children and Youth
http://nch.ari.net/edchild.html
Published by the National Coalition for the Homeless, June 1999. This fact
sheet examines the barriers to public education faced by homeless children
and youth, the progress states have made in removing those barriers, and
current policy issues. A list of resources for further study is also
provided.
Education For Homeless
Children and Youth
http://www.ed.gov/legislation/ESEA/sec323.html
Policy statement from
Congress
Federal Food Programs
http://www.frac.org/html/federal_food_programs/programs/homeless/homeless_index.html
The Food Research and Action Center (FRAC) is a leading national
organization working to improve public policies to eradicate hunger and
under nutrition in the United States.
Homeless Children: Meeting
the Educational Challenges.
http://www.ed.gov/databases/ERIC_Digests/ed356099.html
Difficulties faced by homeless children and their parents, a
research article from ERIC.
International HOMELESS Discussion List, Archives, and Web links - Homepage
http://csf.Colorado.EDU/homeless/index.html
http://csf.colorado.edu/homeless/youth.html
Lots of information and links
National Association for the Education of Homeless children
Lots of information and links
National Health Care for Homeless Children
http://www.nhchc.org/Children/
The National Health Care for the Homeless Council and the HCH Clinicians' Network involve homeless service providers and their clients in political action to reduce poverty and to prevent and end homelessness.
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Hospice Care
American
Hospice Foundation
http://www.americanhospice.org
This site includes articles, publications and links to other resources.
Hospice Foundation of America
http://www.hospicefoundation.org/
HFA is a nonprofit organization that promotes hospice care
and works to educate professionals and the families they serve in issues
relating to care giving, terminal illness, loss and bereavement.
HospiceNet
http://www.hospicenet.org/
This site is for families and patients facing life-threatening illnesses.
There are many links to information about Caregivers, Services, Patients and
Bereavement.
Hospice Patients Alliance
http://www.hospicepatients.org/
Topics covered are symptom management, hospice regulations,
standards of care, patient rights, terminal illnesses and more.
HospiceWeb
http://www.hospiceweb.com/
This is a nice informational site of hospice care with links
to other sites for more information.
Medline Plus
http://www.nih.gov/medlineplus/hospicecare.htm
This National Institute of Health page contains directories, law and policy,
statistics and more.
National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homehosp.htm
This National Center site has a ton of health information.
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Househusbands
Dads at home
http://www.housedad.co.uk/
Thousands of men are putting their careers on hold to stay at
home and in the past five years the number has risen from 44,000 to 99,000
(according to the Office for National Statistics). The site contains advice,
health, recipes, links, rights and more.
Dads Today
http://dadstoday.com/resources/articles/stayathome.htm
Of the 2 to 3 million fathers who stay at home with their
children, some work full time, some freelance and some do not work outside
the home at all.
Wisconsin Fathers for Children and Families
http://www.wisconsinfathers.org/fatherresearch.htm
Site contains a hot line, child custody and placement, child
support, false allegations of child abuse, links and more.
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Impact of TV on Children -
Ratings of TV and Movies
American
Academy
of Pediatrics
http://www.aap.org/policy/
This paper describes
the possible negative health effects of television viewing on children and
adolescents, such as violent or aggressive behavior, substance use, sexual
activity, obesity, poor body image, and decreased school performance.
American
Psychological Association
http://helping.apa.org/family/kidtvviol.html
This is an article about children and television.
Broadcasters Unveil New Rating System for TV.
http://www.cep.org/ratings.html
December 11, 1996: Jack Valenti, President and CEO of the Motion Picture
Association of America, (MPAA) unveiled the television industry's new rating
system.
Children and Television
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/childrenand/childrenand.htm
A history of children
and television and its effects.
FCC Children’s Television Act
http://cme.org/press/ctapr.html
Global Childnet
http://edie.cprost.sfu.ca/gcnet/ISS4-21c.html
This site from Vancouver, BC has lots of information about children. This page has quick information.
Impact of televised
violence
http://www.ksu.edu/humec/impact.htm
Questions about the
effects of television violence have existed since the earliest days of this
medium. Indeed, the first expression of formal concern can be found in
congressional hearings in the early 1950s.
Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse
http://www.mincava.umn.edu/tvviol.asp
Numerous articles,
fact sheets and other resources.
National Television
Violence Study: Year 1
http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/med/home/resource/ntvs.htm
Released in February 1996, the Mediascope National Television Violence
Study (NTVS) is the initial report of an ongoing three-year research
project into violent content in U.S. television programming.
Year 2
http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/issues/violence/resource/reports/ntvs2.htm
Year 3
http://www.media-awareness.ca/eng/issues/violence/resource/reports/ntvs3.htm
Protecting Children from Harmful Television –Television and the V-chip
http://parenthood.library.wisc.edu/Nathanson/Nathanson.html
This paper briefly describes the history and development of television ratings, discuss three of the major problems associated with television ratings, and then point out some of the other methods that are available to help parents cope with the presence of television in their children's lives.
Scientific American
http://www.sciam.com/2002/0202issue/0202kubey.html
Watching television, per se, is not problematic. Television can teach and
amuse; it can reach aesthetic heights; it can provide much needed
distraction and escape. The difficulty arises when people strongly sense
that they ought not to watch as much as they do and yet find themselves
strangely unable to reduce their viewing.
Television Violence and its impact on children
http://www.pitt.edu/~ocdweb/pdfdnlds/tvviolen.pdf.
Violence in
children's television is so prevalent that Saturday morning children's shows
contain as much as five times the number of violent acts per hour than do
the shows aired for adults during weekday, prime-time hours. Research
suggests that violence viewed on television affects the behavior of children
as well as adults.
Interracial Dating,
Marriage, and Children
Beleaguered Families: Identity Ascription and the Politics of Adoption
http://lawschool.stanford.edu/sjls/issue_two/jaquez/jacqueztxt.html
Changes in the ideas
of adoption and identity
Bob Jones Bends
http://racerelations.about.com/library/weekly/aa030600a.htm
In an interview with
Larry King on Friday, Bob Jones III, the president of the now-famous
University, which was at the center of a George W. Bush controversy, made an
announcement that surprised many.
Interracial Families
http://ssw.unc.edu/fcrp/fp/fp_vol2no2/interracial_families.htm
Parents who adopt
transracially cannot ignore that they become a minority family, subject to
criticism, odd remarks, and prejudice from people of all races.
Interracial Marriages Eroding Barriers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/dec98/melt29.htm
The last of an article
in a series about the myth of the melting post and what is really happening
with interracial marriages and their children.
Interracial relationships increasingly accepted
http://www.uvi.edu/journalism/uvision/v2i6/racial.htm
Printed in an issue of
a journal from the University of the
Virgin Islands.
Interracial dating and marrying is described as the dating or marrying of
two people of different races. This type of bonding is becoming more popular
than in times of before. More people are attempting to break down the color
barriers that exist so thickly. They are embarking on the seas of colorless
love.
Into the Open
http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Brown_Alumni_Magazine/96/4-96/elms/dating.html
When blacks and whites
date, is it progress or cultural rejection? An experience at
Brown University asks
some questions.
Non-Traditional Family: Multiracial Children
http://www-honors.ucdavis.edu/html/parenting/nonracial.html
Many, but not all
interracial children have a difficult time dealing with racism, and many do
not have to deal with it at all. Although racism is a part of many
interracial children’s lives, by playing an active role and educating your
child about his or her background, they don’t have to feel less of a person
because they are different.
Loving v. Virginia
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~kdown/loving.html
On a personal homepage
of an interracial family is the background information of the fight to
change the illegal state of intermarriage in this country.
U. S. Census Bureau
http://www.census.gov
http://www.census.gov/population/www/socdemo/hh-fam.html
Get statistical
information from the Department of Commerce
The University of Minnesota's Children, Youth and Family Consortium
http://www.cyfc.umn.edu/Adoptinfo/adoptinfolinks.html
The site is mainly
about adoption, but it has interracial links.
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