Kupferman's Senior Projects Research

Helpful Sites:  Click on the site links under each topic.  These are sites found by your teacher-librarian and seem to be reliable or informative.
Cambodia Mother-Daughter Conflicts/Relationships

Single-mothers in American society
Country studies (health and welfare) Scholarly Thesis: Columbia University Census summary

Census stats for single parents/people
PBS (Video) UC Santa Barbara: Adolescent dev. Institute for Women's Policy factsheet
Engender Health Virginia Tech. Digital Library: essay Bureau of Labor Statistics (pdf)

Federal Reserve (effects of welfare reform on single mothers)
Asian Dev. Bank Psychology Today article Child Welfare Information Gateway (contains many articles about housing issues for single parents)
NY Times Discovery Health PubMed.gov/US National Library of Medicine. (brief article and related sites about mental/health issues of single mothers)
Center for Human Services WebMD Transcript Maryland (pdf connecting single motherhood to poverty)
World Health Organization I NPR audio program and book excerpt Washington (statistical chart of single mothers ages)
WHO II -search "Cambodia" Master's Thesis Dept. of Health and Human Services
Do a SITE Search in Google for the WHO:

<Cambodia healthcare site:www.who.int>

 Some well-known names in this field of study:

Carol Gilligan
Mara Applebaum
Elizabeth Debold

Also, consider looking at Asian-American mother-daughter conflicts/relationships through the "lens" of fictional works by Amy Tan, Maxine Hong Kingston and others.  See this link for ideas.

 Do various searches similar to these:

<opportunities for single mothers>
<single mothers welfare [housing, education, etc.] assistance>
<single mothers poverty>
<single mothers government assistance>
<single motherhood statistics>
<single motherhood site:.edu>
<single motherhood site:.gov>

 

Peer Pressure

    
U Michigan 1 Peer Pressure

U Michigan 2 Adolescents and Peer Pressure

    
Mesa Community College
Yale--Environment 360
U Minnesota Misunderstood Concept    
Minnesota State Peer Pressure & Girls    
North News Editorial
Heidigger and Peer Pressure (very advanced thesis)    
Gangs, cliques and peer pressure (thesis)    
Go to ProQuest at the KCLS Library.  Do searches on the following:

<peer pressure>
<teens AND peer pressure>
<teens AND peers>
<effects of peer pressure>
<peer pressure AND causes>
<peer pressure AND consequences>

You can search similarly on GOOGLE, but you might try to end with a SITE search

Example:
<peer pressure site:.edu>