HUMAN DEVELOPMENT

American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Family Fact Sheets - Excellent site for information on a great many topics relevant to children and families including.

American Psychological Association - You can search from here using "human development" as the search term and get a variety of relevant information.

Birds and Bees - Information on STDs, pregnancy, birth control, and abortion.

Brain Facts - Brain Facts is a 74-page downloadable primer on the brain and nervous system, published by SfN. Designed for a lay audience as an introduction to neuroscience.

The Child Development Website - Month by month look at development, 1-36 months.

Course on Human Development - This is an actual course on the web with excellent information on human development.

Go Ask Alice - Loads of questions and answers on all kinds of relationship, sexuality, and sexual health issues.

I Wanna Know - This site offers some information on STDs, basics about what's going on with your body, and advice on how to deal with peer pressure.

It's Your Sex Life - Lots of good information on teenage sexual health.

Kids Source On-Line - Information including articles on a variety of topics relevant to child raising including special needs children.

National Center for Kids Overcoming Crisis - Great site for parenting tips, preventing child abuse, tips on helping young people through crisis.

Parenting - Parenting newsletters from UW-Cooperative Extension.

Psych Links - 5000 links to psychology-based sites.

Respect and Protect - Website for teenagers put out by the Illinois Department of Public Health.

Sex Etc - By teens for teens; helps youth become sexually healthy people and avoid pregnancy and disease during their teenage years.

Surgeon General's Report on Mental Health, Chapter 3 - This is a good overview of theories of human development.

Teen Advice Online

Teen Pregnancy - This website has information for young people and adults who want to prevent teen pregnancy.

Teenwire - Great information on young men's and women's bodies, how not to have sex if you don't want it, safer sex, and dealing with breaking up. It also gives referrals to local clinics.