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Consortium on Children, Family & the Law, United States

Address	Main lines of research	Staff profile and disciplines	Networks
Consortium on Children, Family and the Law Institute on Family & Neighbourhood Life 158 Poole Agricultural Center Clemson University Clemson, SC 29643-0132 USA Tel: +1-864-656-6271 Fax: +1-864-656-6281 E-mail: gmelton@clemson.edu Gary Melton Director	The need for connection between families and their communities Research divisions - Family policy - Neighbourhood development and family support - School-based family services - Justice studies and the family - Families and gobal change - Families of Africa and the African diaspora - Integrated family studies Current projects - Child protection policy research - Treatment of abused and neglected children - Novel concepts in the Convention on the Rights of the Child	- 60 principal faculty and professional staff - 10 support staff - 100 affiliated faculty and policy fellows Disciplines - African-American studies - Business - Dental hygiene - Economics - Education - English - Journalism - Law - Mass communication - Nursing - Paediatrics - Planning - Political science - Psychology - Public administration - Social work - Sociology	National: - Consortium on Children, Families and the Law - Parents Anonymous - National Committee to Prevent Child Abuse - several North American universities International: - Beyond survival - Centre for Behavioural Science, University of the Orange Free State, South Africa - Social Science Faculty at Tallin (Estonia) Pedagogical University - The (Czech) Research Institute of Labour and Social Affairs - Psychology Institute, University of Bergen (Norway) - Nic Waals Institute (Norway) - Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University

Last updated: 24 June 1999