Look for special aspects of your topic such as --History or --Family relationships or --Political and social views.
Example: Stepfamilies -- United States. For finding background material relating to historical, social, or political themes:
Children
families, black
family economic aspects
family size
african american families
hispanic american families
homeless families
television and family
family in motion pictures
family moral and ethical aspects
family policy united states
parenting
problem families
gay parents
Tribes
The databases under the Finding Articles tab (on the left) would be great places to look for information. A few additional databases that relate to families are below.
Index and abstracts for publications covering gender-engaged scholarship.
LGBTQ+ Source is the definitive database for LGBTQ+ studies. It provides scholarly and popular LGBTQ+ publications in full text, plus historically important primary sources, including monographs, magazines and newspapers. It also includes a specialized LGBTQ+ thesaurus containing thousands of terms.
The following is a useful journal to browse if you want to see what kinds of topics are published in this area.