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Child Trends DataBank

Data on national trends and research indicators on more than 100 indicators of child and youth well-being. Specific topics organized under the broad categories of: Health, Social & Emotional Development, Income, Assets & Work, Education & Skills, Demographics, and Family & Community. Also searchable by: Subgroup, Age, Alphabetic listing of topics.

KIDS COUNT State-Level Data Online

Easy-to-use database allows you to generate custom reports, graphs, maps, ranked lists, and state-by-state profiles for a geographic area (Profiles) or to compare geographic areas on a topic (Ranking, Maps, and Line Graphs)." Includes more than 75 measures of child well-being.

Maternal and Child Health Resources - UC Berkeley. Sheldon Margen Public Health Library

Topical resources are organized by: Organizations and Agencies, Publications and Databases, and Guides.

Girl wide web : girls, the Internet, and the negotiation of identity / edited by Sharon R. Mazzarella.

This very recent compilation (2005) contains 11 scholarly articles on the subject of adolescent girls and their use of the web, from perspectives of age, gender, ethnicity, and sociology/media theory. With regard to the subject of teenage girls and fandom, I am interested in Scodari's work on the negotiation of age and gender in TV fan newsgroups, since I am also discussing women's speech in such groups. Mazzarella continues this topic with her discussion of the "cultural economy" of teenage girls fandom on the internet. Finally, Thiel takes on the description of the construction of identity and gender identification for girls over instant messaging, which she describes as both a cultural and an experimentation space. While this text does not discuss specific linguistic topics, it does serve as an interesting sociological reference for young women's behavior on the internet, which could influence or inform linguisitic decisions online.