14.1 What Is Marriage? What Is a Family?
For more information on family development and lines of descent, visit the New England Historical Genealogical Society’s web site, American Ancestors, and find out how genealogies have been established and recorded since 1845.
14.2 Variations in Family Life
For more statistics on marriage and family, see the Forum on Child and Family Statistics at https://openstax.org/l/child_family_statistics, as well as the American Community Survey, the Current Population Survey, and the U.S. Census decennial survey at the U.S. Census Bureau's web site.
14.3 Challenges Families Face
To find more information on child abuse, visit the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services web site to review documents provided by the Child Welfare Information Gateway.