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• Beyond the Blueprint: Directions for Research for Head Start's Families (1996), ed. by Deborah A. Phillips and Natasha J. Cabrera (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Children in Jeopardy: A Study of Abused Minors and Their Families (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1967), by Elizabeth Elmer, contrib. by Bertram R. Girdany, Thomas McHenry, and John B. Reinhart (page images at Pitt)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Providing National Statistics on Health and Social Welfare Programs in an Era of Change: Summary of a Workshop, ed. by Constance F. Citro, Charles F. Manski, and John Pepper (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Child Welfare Practice: A Conversation About Reality (2014), by Kenneth J. Herrmann (PDF with commentary at Brockport)
• Child Protection in Families Experiencing Domestic Violence (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2003), by H. Lien Bragg (HTML and PDF at childwelfare.gov)
• The Role of First Responders in Child Maltreatment Cases: Disaster and Nondisaster Situations (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2010), by Richard Cage and Marsha K. Salus (illustrated HTML and PDF at childwelfare.gov)
• A Coordinated Response to Child Abuse and Neglect: The Foundation for Practice (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2003), by Jill Goldman and Marsha K. Salus (HTML and PDF at childwelfare.gov)
• New Findings on Children, Families, and Economic Self-Sufficiency: Summary of a Research Briefing (1995), ed. by Deborah A. Phillips and Anne Bridgmann (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• Community Partnerships: Improving the Response to Child Maltreatment (2010), by United States Office on Child Abuse and Neglect (HTML and PDF at childwelfare.gov)
• Child Neglect: A Guide for Prevention, Assessment and Intervention (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2006), by Diane DePanfilis (HTML and PDF at childwelfare.gov)
• A Creative Life for Your Children (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Health, Education, and Welfare, Social Security Administration, Children's Bureau, 1962), by Margaret Mead (page images at HathiTrust)
• Working with the Courts in Child Protection (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2006), by William G. Jones (HTML and PDF at childwelfare.gov)
• Pogo Primer for Parents (TV Division) (Washington: Children's Bureau, 1961), by Walt Kelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• Investing in Our Children: What We Know and Don't Know About the Costs and Benefits of Early Childhood Interventions, by Lynn A. Karoly, Peter W. Greenwood, Susan S. Everingham, Jill Houbeé, M. Rebecca Kilburn, C. Peter Rydell, Matthew Sanders, and James Chiesa (PDF files at rand.org)

• Children and Youth at the Midcentury: Fact-Finding Report, Additional Digest Material (c1950), by Mid-century White House Conference on Children and Youth (page images at HathiTrust)

• Formative Years: Children's Health in the United States, 1880-2000 (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c2002), ed. by Alexandra Minna Stern and Howard Markel, contrib. by Jeffrey P. Baker, Jeffrey P. Brosco, Leon Eisenberg, Hughes Evans, John Christopher Feudtner, Janet Lynne Golden, Richard A. Meckel, Heather Munro Prescott, and Russell Viner (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Future of Children (1991-) (full serial archives)

• Child Protection in Families Experiencing Domestic Violence (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2003), by H. Lien Bragg (HTML and PDF at childwelfare.gov)

• Children in Jeopardy: A Study of Abused Minors and Their Families (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1967), by Elizabeth Elmer, contrib. by Bertram R. Girdany, Thomas McHenry, and John B. Reinhart (page images at Pitt)

• Community Partnerships: Improving the Response to Child Maltreatment (2010), by United States Office on Child Abuse and Neglect (HTML and PDF at childwelfare.gov)
• Child Neglect: A Guide for Prevention, Assessment and Intervention (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2006), by Diane DePanfilis (HTML and PDF at childwelfare.gov)
• A Coordinated Response to Child Abuse and Neglect: The Foundation for Practice (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2003), by Jill Goldman and Marsha K. Salus (HTML and PDF at childwelfare.gov)
• The Role of Educators in Preventing and Responding to Child Abuse and Neglect (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2003), by Cynthia Crosson-Tower (HTML and PDF at childwelfare.gov)
• Understanding Child Abuse and Neglect (1993), by National Research Council Panel on Research on Child Abuse and Neglect (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Protecting Children in Families Affected by Substance Use Disorders (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2009), by ICF International (Firm) (HTML and PDF at childwelfare.gov)

• Child Protective Services: A Guide for Caseworkers (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2003), by Diane DePanfilis and Marsha K. Salus (HTML and PDF at childwelfare.gov)

• Investigator's Guide to Allegations of "Ritual" Child Abuse (1992), by Kenneth V. Lanning (PDF with commentary at ncjrs.goc)

• Refining Child Pornography Law: Crime, Language, and Social Consequences (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2016), ed. by Carissa Byrne Hessick
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Child Pornography and Sex Rings (reprinted from the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin; 1984), by Kenneth V. Lanning and Ann Wolbert Burgess (page images at HathiTrust)

• Computer Pornograph and Child Exploitation Prevention Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, on S. 1305 (Washington: GPO, 1986), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Use of Computers to Transmit Material Inciting Crime: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, on the Use of Computers to Transmit Material That Incites Crime and Constitutes Interstate Transmission of Implicit Obscene Matter, June 11, 1985 (Washington: GPO, 1985), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Investigator's Guide to Allegations of "Ritual" Child Abuse (1992), by Kenneth V. Lanning (PDF with commentary at ncjrs.goc)
• The National Report on Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking: America's Prostituted Children (2009), by Shared Hope International (PDF with commentary at sharedhope.org)

• Tempest in the Temple: Jewish Communities and Child Sex Scandals (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2009), ed. by Amy Neustein (PDF with commentary at Brandeis)
• Betrayal of Trust: Clergy Abuse of Children (c1988), by Annie Laurie Gaylor (HTML with commentary at ffrf.org)
• The Causes and Context of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests in the United States, 1950-2010: A Report Presented to the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops by the John Jay College Research Team (Washington: US Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2011), by Karen J. Terry, Margaret Leland Smith, Katarina Schuth, James R. Kelly, Brenda Vollman, and Christina Massey (PDF at usccb.org)
• The Nature and Scope of Sexual Abuse of Minors by Catholic Priests And deacons in the United States, 1950-2002: A Research Study Conducted by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, the City University of New York (Washington: United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2004), by John Jay College of Criminal Justice (PDF at usccb.org)

• Report I of the 40th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury (redacted copy of the Pennsylvania Diocese Victims Report, with responses; ca. 2018), by Pennsylvania Statewide Grand Jury (PDF with commentary at attorneygeneral.gov)

• Child Sexual Exploitation: Improving Investigations and Protecting Victims (1995), by Education Development Center (text at ncjrs.gov)

• The Role of First Responders in Child Maltreatment Cases: Disaster and Nondisaster Situations (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2010), by Richard Cage and Marsha K. Salus (illustrated HTML and PDF at childwelfare.gov)
• Community Partnerships: Improving the Response to Child Maltreatment (2010), by United States Office on Child Abuse and Neglect (HTML and PDF at childwelfare.gov)
• Child Neglect: A Guide for Prevention, Assessment and Intervention (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2006), by Diane DePanfilis (HTML and PDF at childwelfare.gov)

• Working with the Courts in Child Protection (Washington: Children's Bureau, Office on Child Abuse and Neglect, 2006), by William G. Jones (HTML and PDF at childwelfare.gov)
• Refining Child Pornography Law: Crime, Language, and Social Consequences (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2016), ed. by Carissa Byrne Hessick
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• The Use of Computers to Transmit Material Inciting Crime: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, on the Use of Computers to Transmit Material That Incites Crime and Constitutes Interstate Transmission of Implicit Obscene Matter, June 11, 1985 (Washington: GPO, 1985), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Repaying Debts (New York: Council of State Governments Justice Center, c2007), by Rachel L. McLean and Michael D. Thompson (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)

• Kinship With Strangers: Adoption and Interpretations of Kinship in American Culture (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1994), by Judith Schachter (HTML at UC Press)

• The Child Labor Question in Alabama: A Plea for Immediate Action (pamphlet #59; New York: National Child Labor Committee, ca. 1907), by Edgar Gardner Murphy (page images at Harvard)

• Report of the New York State Commission on Relief for Widowed Mothers: Transmitted to the Legislature March 27, 1914 (Albany: J. B. Lyon Co., 1914), by New York State Commission on Relief for Widowed Mothers, contrib. by Sophie Irene Loeb (page images at HathiTrust)

• Applications of R&D in the Civil Sector: The Opportunity Provided by the Federal Grant and Cooperative Agreement Act of 1977 (1978), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• The American University: National Treasure or Endangered Species? (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, 1997), ed. by Ronald G. Ehrenberg (at ecommons.cornell.edu)
• Science, the Endless Frontier (Washington: GPO, 1945), by Vannevar Bush and United States Office of Scientific Research and Development
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • HTML (main report only, without extensive appendices) at nsf.gov
• Research Briefings, 1986, by Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy (U.S.) (page images with commentary at NAP)

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