I'm looking for scholarly articles on: Low-income and divorced families beliefs about their role in children's academic learning and the influence of neighborhood quality on adolescent's educational values and school effort.

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Look for scholarly articles here:

http://scholar.google.com

Also ... do you have access to a college or public library? Even if you go to the library only once to get a library card/number, you should be able to get the usernames and passwords so you can access the huge databases most libraries subscribe to these days. You'll often find better information through them than through general searches on the Internet.

Here is an example -- one college's library website (but public libraries usually have many of these, too): (Broken Link Removed)
Click on Electronic Resources/Databases to see the different databases this particular college provides for its students. EBSCOhost, ProQuest, and Facts.com are among the largest and best.

What does your library provide? That's a good place to research.