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Father's Day
The first recorded celebration of Father's Day occurred in 1908, but Father's Day did not become a national holiday until 1972 (100 years after Mother's Day became a national holiday). Many people have taken credit for beginning this holiday, but one ...
- Families, Family Life, Social Identities
- Birth Order
- Birthday Parties
- Child-Rearing Practices
- Coparenting
- Discipline
- Divorce and Separation
- Egalitarian Marriages
- Ethnic Food
- Family Values
- Foster Families
- Fragile Families
- Frozen Food
- Games and Play
- Genealogy and Family Trees
- Generation Gap
- Generation X
- Generation Y
- Genetics and Heredity
- Half-Siblings
- Infertility
- Intergenerational Transmission
- Love, Types of
- Me Decade
- Multigenerational Households
- Multilingualism
- Multiracial Families
- Nuclear Family
- Open Marriages
- Persons of Opposite Sex Sharing Living Quarters
- Retirement
- Shared Custody
- Standard North American Family
- Stepsiblings
- Toys
- Families and Culture
- Acculturation
- Almshouses
- Anorexia
- Arranged Marriage
- Assimilation
- Automobiles
- Baby Showers
- Bar Mitzvahs and Bat Mitzvahs
- Barbie Dolls
- Books, Adult Fiction
- Books, Adult Nonfiction
- Books, Children's
- Bulimia
- Child-Rearing Experts
- Child-Rearing Manuals
- Child-Rearing Practices
- Children's Beauty Pageants
- Collectivism
- Credit Cards
- C-Sections
- Dating
- Death and Dying
- Department Stores
- Direct Home Sales
- Dowries
- Drive-Ins
- Engagement Parties
- Engagement Rings
- Ethnic Enclaves
- Extended Families
- Family Reunions
- Father's Day
- First Generation
- Funerals
- Gated Communities
- Gatekeeping
- Grandparents' Day
- HIV/AIDS
- Home Economics
- Hooking Up
- Immigrant Families
- Individualism
- It Takes a Village Proverb
- Kindergarten
- Kwanzaa
- Language Brokers
- Levittown
- Marital Division of Labor
- McDonald's
- Midlife Crisis
- Mother's Day
- Music in the Family
- Online Shopping
- Orphan Trains
- Pets
- Polio
- Promise Rings
- Quinceañera Ceremonies
- Rape
- Reading to Children
- Rockwell, Norman
- Shakers
- Shopping Centers and Malls
- Speed Dating
- Sports
- Supermarkets
- Swaddling
- Sweet Sixteen
- Thanksgiving
- Theater
- Utopian Experiments and Communities
- Vacations
- Valentine's Day
- Wedding Showers
- Weddings
- Weekends
- Wet Nursing
- WPA
- Families and Experts
- Addams, Jane
- Adler, Alfred
- Advice Columnists
- Bandura, Alfred
- Bettelheim, Bruno
- Bowen, Murray
- Bowlby, John
- Brazelton, T. Berry
- Bronfenbrenner, Urie
- Dr. Phil
- Dr. Ruth
- Dreikurs, Rudolf
- Family Life Education
- Family Mediation/Divorce Mediation
- Family Therapy
- Freud, Sigmund
- Gesell, Arnold Lucius
- Hall, G. Stanley
- Hite Report
- Hochschild, Arlie
- Holt, Luthor
- Kinsey, Alfred (Kinsey Institute)
- Maslow, Abraham
- Masters and Johnson
- Mead, Margaret
- Minuchin, Salvador
- Montessori
- Richards, Ellen
- Rogers, Carl
- Satir, Virginia
- Skinner, B. F.
- Spock, Benjamin
- Watson, John B.
- Families and Religion
- Agnostics
- Atheists
- Baptism
- Catholicism
- Christening
- Christianity
- Christmas
- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- Circumcision
- Cults
- Divorce and Religion
- Easter
- Evangelicals
- Godparents
- Great Awakening
- Hanukkah
- Islam
- Judaism and Orthodox Judaism
- Natural Families
- Passover
- Polygamy
- Promise Keepers
- Protestants
- Religious Holidays
- Religiously Affiliated Schools
- Rituals
- Saints Days
- Sharia Law
- Sunday School
- Temperance
- Families and Social Change
- Abortion
- Adolescent Pregnancy
- Baby Boom Generation
- Birth Control Pills
- Breadwinner-Homemaker Families
- Civil Rights Movement
- Cocooning
- Commercialization and Advertising Aimed at Children
- Communes
- Contraception and the Sexual Revolution
- Contraception: IUDs
- Contraception: Morning After Pills
- Cult of Domesticity
- Day Care
- Demographic Changes: Age at First Marriage
- Demographic Changes: Aging of America
- Demographic Changes: Cohabitation Rates
- Demographic Changes: Divorce Rates
- Demographic Changes: Zero Population Growth/Birthrates
- Desegregation in the Military
- Disney/Disneyland/Amusement Parks
- Domestic Masculinity
- Erectile Dysfunction Pills
- Fatherhood, Responsible
- Feminism
- Great Society Social Programs
- Healthy Marriage Initiative
- Information Age
- Intensive Mothering
- Internet
- Interracial Marriage
- Leisure Electronics
- Leisure Time
- Marketing to and Data Collection on Families/Children
- Military Families
- Mommy Wars
- Myth of Motherhood
- Natural Disasters
- New Deal
- New Fatherhood
- Other Mothers
- Overmothering
- Parent Education
- Polyamory
- School Shootings/Mass Shootings
- Segregation
- Social Fatherhood
- Sun City and Retirement Communities
- Swinging
- Technology
- Third Wave Feminism
- Urban Families
- Vietnam War
- War on Terror
- Westward Expansion
- White Flight
- Yuppies
- Families and Social Issues, Problems, and Crises
- Alcoholism and Addiction
- Bullying
- Caregiver Burden
- Caring for the Elderly
- Child Abuse
- Child Custody
- Child Support Enforcement
- Delinquency
- Disability (Children)
- Disability (Parents)
- Domestic Violence
- Elder Abuse
- Family Counseling
- Food Shortages and Hunger
- Homelessness
- Incest
- Interventions
- Learning Disorders
- Mental Disorders
- Multiple Partner Fertility
- Obesity
- Postpartum Depression
- Runaways and Homeless Youth
- Shelters
- Single-Parent Families
- Suicide
- Teen Alcohol and Drug Abuse
- Widowhood
- Wife Battering
- Families and Social Media
- Families and Social Stratification/Social Class
- “Anchor Babies”
- “White Trash”
- African American Families
- Asian American Families
- Central and South American Immigrant Families
- Chinese Immigrant Families
- German Immigrant Families
- Indian (Asian) Immigrant Families
- Inheritance
- Irish Immigrant Families
- Italian Immigrant Families
- Japanese Immigrant Families
- Korean Immigrant Families
- Latino Families
- Melting Pot Metaphor
- Mexican Immigrant Families
- Middle East Immigrant Families
- Middle-Class Families
- Military Families
- Miscegenation
- One Percent, The
- Polish Immigrant Families
- Poverty and Poor Families
- Tossed Salad Metaphor
- Trailer Parks
- Vietnamese Immigrant Families
- Wealthy Families
- Working-Class Families/Working Poor
- Families and Technology
- Families and the Economy
- Families in America
- “Mama's Boy” and “Daddy's Girl”
- Adolescence
- Adolescent and Teen Rebellion
- Assisted Living
- Attachment Parenting
- Breadwinner-Homemaker Families
- Breadwinners
- Breastfeeding
- Childhood in America
- Childless Couples
- Cohabitation
- Courtship
- Date Nights
- Dating Web Sites
- Divorce and Separation
- Domestic Ideology
- Education, College/University
- Education, Elementary
- Education, High School
- Education, Middle School
- Education, Postgrad
- Education, Preschool
- Education/Play Balance
- Emerging Adulthood
- Empty Nest Syndrome
- Fertility
- Foster Care
- Gender Roles
- Grandparenting
- Home Health Care
- Homemaker
- In-Laws
- Later-Life Families
- Living Apart Together
- Living Together Apart
- Miscegenation
- Mothers in the Workforce
- Nature Versus Nurture Debate
- Nursing Homes
- Parental Controls
- Parental Supervision
- Parenting
- Parenting Styles
- Patriarchal Terrorism
- Preferential Treatment
- Prenatal Care and Pregnancy
- Problem Child
- Remarriage
- Same-Sex Marriage
- Self-Help, Culture of
- Separate Sphere Ideology
- Sibling Rivalry
- Soccer Moms
- Stay-at-Home Fathers
- Stepchildren
- Stepfamilies
- Stepparenting
- Surrogacy
- Tabula Rasa
- Transgender Marriage
- Families in Mass Media
- Advertising and Commercials, Families in
- Cultural Stereotypes in Media
- Film, 1930s
- Film, 1940s
- Film, 1950s
- Film, 1960s
- Film, 1970s
- Film, 1980s
- Film, 1990s
- Film, 2000s
- Film, 2010s
- Film, Silent
- Gender Roles in Mass Media
- Magazines, Children's
- Magazines, Women's
- Radio: 1920 to 1930
- Radio: 1931 to 1950
- Radio: 1951 to 1970
- Reality Television
- Television for Children
- Television, 1940s
- Television, 1950s
- Television, 1960s
- Television, 1970s
- Television, 1980s
- Television, 1990s
- Television, 2000s
- Television, 2010s
- Twenty-Four-Hour News Reporting and Effect on Families/Children
- Family Advocates and Organizations
- AARP
- Alan Guttmacher Institute
- American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
- American Family Association
- American Family Therapy Academy
- American Home Economics Association
- Annie E. Casey Foundation
- Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
- Boy Scouts
- Camp Fire Girls
- Center for Missing and Exploited Children
- Child Study Association of America
- Children's Aid Society
- Children's Bureau
- Children's Defense Fund
- Children's Rights Movement
- Cooperative Extension System
- Council on Contemporary Families
- Every Child Matters
- Family Medicine
- Family Research Council
- Family Service Association of America
- Focus on the Family
- Girl Scouts
- Groves Conference on Marriage and the Family
- Head Start
- MADD
- National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect
- National Center on Elder Abuse
- National Child Labor Committee
- National Council on Family Relations
- National Partnership for Women and Families
- Parent Effectiveness Training
- Parents as Teachers
- Parents Without Partners
- PFLAG
- Planned Parenthood
- PREP Program
- PREPARE/ENRICH Programs
- Sex Information and Education Council of the United States
- Smart Marriages Conferences
- Society for Research in Child Development
- Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
- Stepfamily Association of America
- White House Conference on Families
- YMCA
- Family Law and Family Policy
- “Best Interests of the Child” Doctrine
- Brown v. Board of Education
- Roe v. Wade
- ADC/AFDC
- Adoption Laws
- Adoption, Closed
- Adoption, Grandparents and
- Adoption, International
- Adoption, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender People and
- Adoption, Mixed-Race
- Adoption, Open
- Adoption, Second Parents and
- Adoption, Single People and
- Alimony and Child Support
- AMBER Alert
- Assisted Reproduction Technology
- Baby M
- Child Advocate
- Child Care
- Child Health Insurance
- Child Safety
- Child Support
- Children's Online Privacy Protection Act
- Children's Television Act
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Civil Unions
- Common Law Marriage
- Community Property
- Constitution, U.S.
- Covenant Marriage
- Curfews
- Custody and Guardianship
- Deadbeat Dads
- Defense of Marriage Act
- Domestic Partner Benefits
- DREAM Act
- Earned Income Tax Credit
- Equal Rights Amendment
- Estate Planning
- Estate Taxes
- Fair Labor Standards Act
- Family and Medical Leave Act
- Family Planning
- Fathers' Rights
- Food Stamps
- Gay and Lesbian Marriage Laws
- Grandparents' Rights
- Green Card Marriages
- Health Care Power of Attorney
- Health of American Families
- Higher Education Act
- Home Mortgage Deduction
- Homestead Act
- Housing Policy
- Immigration Policy
- Inheritance Tax/Death Tax
- Maternity Leaves
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Merger Doctrine
- Million Man March
- Moynihan Report
- National Affordable Housing Act
- No-Fault Divorce
- Office of Child Support Enforcement
- Palimony
- Parenting Plans
- Paternity Leaves
- Paternity Testing
- Poverty Line
- Power of Attorney
- Prenuptial Agreements
- Prohibition
- Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
- Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Protection Act of 1921
- Student Loans/College Aid
- TANF
- Tender Years Doctrine
- Trusts
- Truth in Lending Act of 1968
- Uniform Parentage Act
- War on Poverty
- Welfare Reform
- Wills
- Family Theories
- Attachment Theories
- Conflict Theory
- Constructionist and Poststructuralist Theories
- Ecological Theory
- Evolutionary Theories
- Family Development Theory
- Family Stress Theories
- Feminist Theory
- Functionalist Theory
- Life Course Perspective
- Psychoanalytic Theories
- Rational Choice Theory
- Relational Dialectics
- Social Exchange Theory
- Symbolic Interaction Theory
- Systems Theory
- History of American Families
- Frontier Families
- Immigrant Families
- Industrial Revolution Families
- Midwestern Families
- Native American Families
- Rural Families
- Slave Families
- Social History of American Families: 1777 to 1789
- Social History of American Families: 1790 to 1850
- Social History of American Families: 1851 to 1900
- Social History of American Families: 1901 to 1920
- Social History of American Families: 1921 to 1940
- Social History of American Families: 1941 to 1960
- Social History of American Families: 1961 to 1980
- Social History of American Families: 1981 to 2000
- Social History of American Families: 2001 to the Present
- Social History of American Families: Colonial Era to 1776
- Southern Families
- Southwestern Families
- Suburban Families
- Union Families
- Urban Families
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