The work-life balance of fathers has increasingly come under scrutiny in political and academic debates. This collection brings together qualitative and quantitative empirical analyses to explore fathers' approaches to reconciling paid work and care responsibilities.
Published by the National Council on Family Relations, this journal contains original theory, research interpretation, and critical discussion of materials related to marriage and the family.
The Marriage Strengthening Research & Dissemination Center (MAST) aims to support the efforts of healthy marriage and relationship education programming through research.
Explore how sociology defines family and learn the different terms used to describe specific types of family. This video looks at marriage in different societies, as well as marital residential patterns and patterns of descent.
In addition to your typical sociology resources these three databases will provide additional insight into the topics of marriage and family.
This covers essential areas related to family studies, including marriage, divorce, family therapy and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
Because religion is so traditionally intertwined with marriage and family, it might be helpful to search the major religion and theology journals.
This resource is both international and interdisciplinary in scope, covering a wide range of social science topics.
An asterisk ( Shift+8 to get *) after a series of letters tells the search to provide results that match the letters you typed along with any word ending as long as it is part of the same word. Keep in mind that this may not always work the way you expect! Applications for this could be:
| Base plus * | Sample of Possible matches |
|---|---|
| cohabit* | cohabited, cohabitation, cohabitating |
| parent* | parents, parenting, parental |
Placing quotes around two or more words tells the search to provide results with those words in that exact order with only one space between them. This is especially helpful when words have meanings separately that are changed when combined or are given a more specific meaning when used in conjunction. Some examples are:
The word "or" means something very different to databases, and might be helpful when searching for similar concepts that either don't all start with the same letters or has too many irrelevant matches.
| Instead of just... | Try... |
|---|---|
| fathers | fathers OR dads |
| childcare | childcare OR "child care" OR daycare OR babysit* |