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Summary:

Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that seeks to use research to improve children?s lives.  Their objective is to influence public policy-makers, community leaders, and others with power to improve programs and policies that affect children and families.  Child Trends collects and analyzes data; conducts, combines, and releases research; creates and analyzes programs; and develops and analyzes research methods.  It focuses its research in four primary areas:

• child well-being, including child abuse, early childhood development, foster care, and others;
• marriage/family, including adolescent sexual behavior, fatherhood, and others;
• research methods; and
• welfare and poverty.  

Why does FASTEN recommend this resource?

Child Trends is a helpful resource for research on many issues facing children, families, and those who work with children.  Child Trends is a member of the Family and Child Well-Being Research Network of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, a prestigious organization with a highly competitive peer-review process for membership.