This site has "centers" for various family members and types of families. Must-visits are the interesting, helpful interactive features, including Family Soap Opera, Family Drama, and Fly on the Wall, which lets you "listen in" on counseling sessions. (
http://www.wholefamily.com/
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This site, although from the U.K., offers advice that parents all over the world can use to combine the two most important areas of life: family and work. (
http://www.workingfamilies.org.uk
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This organization offers a vast collection of resources for adoptive parents and children, as well as birth parents, about the adoption process, family life, reunions, and more. (
http://www.adoption.org/
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Link to a range of resources and information from Medline, a web portal maintained by the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health. (
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/divorce.html
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Evaluate the advice given to children whose parents are divorcing at this site from Kid's Health. (
http://kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/home_family/divorce.html
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The American Association of Marriage and Family Therapy offers links to books and articles on a variety of marriage and family topics, including divorce. (
http://www.aamft.org/
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Read the advice to children and teens on peer pressure—from the Oracle ThinkQuest Library. (
http://library.thinkquest.org/3354/Resource_Center/Virtual_Library/toc.htm
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Enter "friends" into the Search field to read advice to parents about their kids' friendships in two interesting articles, "Do Kids Need Friends?" and "Friends and Friendships." (
http://www.aboutourkids.org/
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Learn more about the origins, consequences, and possible help for peer rejection in a series of articles at the National Network for Child Care web site. Enter "children without friends" in the search field. (
http://www.nncc.org/
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Dedicated to teaching children to be aware of the messages they get from TV, games, and other media. Link to a wealth of resources about violence in the media and other topics related to media influence. (
http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/
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The Young People's area of this site, based at the University of Edinburgh offers an interesting "pick a pal" interaction to let children get different perspectives on bullying. (
http://www.antibullying.net/
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This U.K. site offers advice for pretty much every conceivable group affected by bullying: children, parents, teachers, event adults who were victims as children. (
http://www.bullying.co.uk/
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View stories, poems, art, and multimedia submissions from children about bullying. Play a game. And learn more about bullying. (
http://www.bullying.org/public/frameset.cfm
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This is a very useful site for people interested in child and adolescent mental health concerns. There are also good links to other mental health resources available here. (
http://www.aacap.org/
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