If your request is related to children or parenting and has interest for our subscribers, you can post a query in one of two newsletters:

• The "Announcements" newsletter is emailed on Thurdays to 24,959 local parents, mostly parents of babies and young children.
• The "Parents of Teens" newsletter is emailed on Fridays to 4,667 local parents of pre-teens, teens, and young adults.

• Post to Announcements
• Post to Parents of Teens

You may subscribe to BPN if you live in the San Francisco Bay Area and you are either a parent yourself, or you work with children or children/parenting issues. It is free to subscribe - Click here.

If you are not eligible to subscribe, you may write to us (click here) to see if we can include your request in an upcoming newsletter. Give us 4-5 sentences in PLAIN TEXT (no fonts, formatting, colors, bullets, etc.) that we can copy-paste into the newsletter that briefly describe your article or your research. Include your name and an email address where interested parents can contact you. Details can be provided via your website or you can offer to mail details to interested people.

• Since BPN is a free not-for-profit network, our subscribers are most interested in participating in academic research studies, public service endeavors, and publicly available media such as newspapers, radio and TV.

• Keep in mind that your message will be read by thousands of people, so, to keep responses manageable, you should be as specific as you can about what you are looking for.

• Most BPN subscribers have babies and young children. We have a separate weekly newsletter for parents of teenagers and pre-teens 10-12. Please be sure to mention whether you are interested in a particular age, and target the appropriate newsletter.

• If you have a deadline that's a few days away, BPN is probably not going to work for you. BPN newsletters are mailed on a regular weekly schedule and we cannot make exceptions to this. There is information on the "Post to" links above about deadlines and when newsletters are mailed.

• We cannot post any announcements about research studies, surveys, articles, radio and TV shows, etc. that are not related to children or parenting.

• The BPN is a very large network of parents (24,959 subscribers as of today) that is run by a very small number of volunteer moms and dads (12). We do not have any staff, we don't have an office or a street address or a telephone number, and we do not have meetings. We are an online, email-based network managed by volunteers, most of whom have full-time jobs unrelated to the BPN. Therefore, there is not anyone at BPN who can be interviewed by reporters and researchers. We won't be able to forward your query to parents we know, or answer questions for you on the phone, or post your question on our website. The only thing we can do is run your query in a weekly newsletter, as explained above.

• Many of the discussions from our newsletters are archived to our website, and this may be how you found us. It is OK with us if you quote some of the discussions on our website as long as you credit the Berkeley Parents Network. See this page for details.) However, we have no way to contact people whose responses appear on the website, because when we archive them, we remove all identifying information for privacy reasons. We do not keep any information about subscribers other than their email addresses. Therefore, the only way to contact BPN subscribers is to post to one of the email newsletters, as described above.