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The Family Rebound that Wasn't, and the Census Report that Failed

The Age of Unwed Mothers : Is Teen Pregnancy the Problem?

Why have three decades of intensive national effort to reduce teen pregnancy not been more successful? Because for three decades, we have misunderstood the problem.

Fatherless Boys Grow Up Into Dangerous Men

...Until recently, scientific evidence has been hard to come by. Researchers had long suspected a link between father absence and crime, but few had access to the kind of large nationally representative database needed to rule out alternative theories. Since boys raised by single parents disproporti...

Family Feud

Child poverty, like crime or school failure, has many causes. But surely the declining number of children raised by both parents is one of the most important. Other countries may have done a better job at narrowing the economic gap that separates children in disrupted families from those in intact f...

Family Feud

Child poverty, like crime or school failure, has many causes. But surely the declining number of children raised by both parents is one of the most important. Other countries may have done a better job at narrowing the economic gap that separates children in disrupted families from those in intact f...