About This Journal
For 50 years, Merrill-Palmer Quarterly has been a primary source of new empirical studies, theoretical papers, critical reviews of literature, and scholarly commentaries. Our goal is to continue MPQ's tradition of excellence.
Merrill-Palmer Quarterly is regularly indexed in Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography, Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences, Current Index to Journals in Education, Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts, Psychological Abstracts, PsycSCAN: Developmental Psychology, Sage Family Studies Abstracts, Social Work Research and Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, and Sociology of Education Abstracts (British).