Research giving me woes!

[heero yuy 95]

Okay, so here's the deal, I'm still awake at 5:15 in the morning on the bottom floor of my dorm, writing the last paper of my freshman year of college... and it's taking me forever because it's killing me to find good research to cite. Like... all I'm looking for are studies to show how mothers are important to the development of children!!! Mothers are pretty darn important!!, one would think there would be more information of them on the almighty interWeb!!
but such is not the case, I just keep finding weird articles chalked full with scientific jargon that really have little to do with what I need... :mutter:

So.....

If anyone here has some good information, be it links or recommendations, I would appreciate it greatly. I'm not asking anyone here to look it up for me, but if they know a place I could go to, it would make my day.

Thanks a million, guys n girls!

[Technomancer]

The first thing is to use your university's library and not the interent. From there you should be able to find various books, as well as their own database for searching journals (probably something like WebSpirs).

On the whole, undergraduate projects like this will be better served by books, or else review articles rather than normal journal papers. The former will summarize the results and place them in context, while the latter will be much more terse and may or may not be significant and/or actually correct.

[heero yuy 95]

Thanks, I guess I should have asked sooner, because it's due today in about nine hours, but that is some solid advice.