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Tue, 01 Dec 2009 09:00:00 GMT
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- December 01, 2009, 9:00 AM to 10:45 AM
On December 1, the National Fatherhood Initiative will release “Mama Says: A National Survey of Mothers’ Attitudes on Fathering” at an event sponsored by the Center on Children and Families at Brookings. The report shows that mothers say stable, well-functioning marriages are extremely important to good fathering, yet over half of mothers say fathers are replaceable by single mothers and nearly two-thirds of mothers say that fathers are replaceable by other men.
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Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Can marriage decrease poverty? Higher marriage rates among the poor would benefit poor adults themselves, their children and the nation, says Ron Haskins. He argues that non-coercive programs that are delivered by community-based agencies can be effective. By helping couples who want to marry, the payoff to them, their children and society is potentially enormous.
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Fri, 31 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Ron Haskins discusses personal responsibility and the three areas of personal decision-making in which the nation’s youth and young adults most need to learn and practice personal responsibility: education, sexual behavior and marriage, and work.
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Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Rebecca Blank, Kerwin Charles and James Sallee demonstrate that administrative data may be inferior to survey data under particular circumstances by examining the effect of state laws governing the minimum age of marriage in the United States.
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Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:00:00 GMT
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- March 13, 2009, 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
In a recent New York Times op-ed, Brookings scholar Jonathan Rauch and co-author David Blankenhorn argue that linking federal civil unions to guarantees of religious freedom is a way to head off a long-term, scorched-earth debate over gay marriage and religious liberty. On March 13, Rauch and Blankenhorn discussed their proposal at a forum moderated by Brookings Senior Fellow William Galston.
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Mon, 02 Mar 2009 00:00:00 GMT
Brookings expert Jonathan Rauch and David Blankenhorn of the Institute of American Values joined Neal Conan on Talk of the Nation to discuss a federal compromise on the issue of same-sex marriage.
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Sat, 21 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT
In their New York Times opinion, Brookings expert Jonathan Rauch and David Blankenhorn of the Institute of American Values offer a federal compromise on the debatable issue of same-sex marriage.
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Sun, 23 Nov 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Navtej Dhillon and Ragui Assaad share findings from new research by the Middle East Youth Initiative indicating that a series of reforms in Egypt has given young people easier access to rental housing. With housing more affordable so, too, is marriage, giving hope to numerous young people in the region who have delayed married life due to financial constraints.
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Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Prior presidential election campaigns once focused on abortion as the primary element of "reproductive freedom." However, during the 2008 presidential election, candidates now find themselves addressing a broader array of arguably related issues, including the use of human embryos for stem-cell research and whether such research should receive federal funding, writes Eli Y. Adashi and Darrell M. West. Judging by Senator Barack Obama's and John McCain's voting records and positions articulated on the Senate floor, the primaries trail, and their campaign Web sites, the 2008 presidential candidates differ substantially in their views on "reproductive freedom."
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Sun, 26 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Same sex couples are missing from the advertising wars over Proposition 8, the constitutional ballot initiative on whether to retain or reject same-sex marriage in California. As Brookings scholar Jonathan Rauch, the absence of same sex couples from California's same-sex marriage debate makes for an oddly hollow discussion.
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Mon, 13 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT
The confluence of economic growth in the Middle East and millions of youth ready to hit the job market could be a recipe for prosperity. However, young people are encountering numerous obstacles. Navtej Dhillon, Director of the Middle East Youth Initiative, and Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Visiting Fellow at the Wolfensohn Center for Development, argue that the root cause of youth exclusion lies in the institutions that mediate transitions from school to work and family formation.
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Fri, 19 Sep 2008 09:00:00 GMT
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- September 19, 2008, 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
Since 2002, the Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Children and Families has provided substantial funding for healthy marriage and relationship programs, which are increasingly reaching out to serve African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, refugees and immigrants from many different cultures. On September 19, the Brookings Institution and the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center will host a discussion to focus on what is being learned about how these programs need to be designed, and curricula adapted, to be relevant to ethnically, racially and culturally diverse populations.
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Thu, 14 Aug 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Navtej Dhillon and Diana Greenwald argue that, despite a difficult political climate, the 'Union for the Mediterranean' can exceed expectations by convening European and Arab leaders around a pressing and shared interest: the need to improve economic outcomes for millions of young people in the broader Middle East.
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Fri, 25 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT
In this paper, Melissa Kearney and Phillip Levine analyze the impact of state policies that expanded eligibility for Medicaid family planning services to women who do not meet regular Medicaid eligibility criteria. The results of their research show that the expanded eligibility policies had a significant impact on reducing unplanned births.
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Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT
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- July 18, 2008, 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
On July 18th, the National Healthy Marriage Resource Center and the Center on Children and Families hosted panels discussing effective models for creating bridges between domestic violence and healthy marriage and relationship programs, as well as emerging curricula and approaches to helping individual women and men avoid abusive relationships.
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Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 GMT
The Middle East Youth Initiative collaborates with NOW on PBS on a documentary about youth employment in Jordan. In a special online supplement, NOW interviews Navtej Dhillon, Brookings fellow and director of the Middle East Youth Initiative, on the challenges facing youth across the Middle East—including unemployment and delayed marriage—and the role of the international community in contributing to reform and development in the region.
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Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT
Jonathan Rauch argues the importance of same sex marriages in America. He writes that marriage stabilizes communities by formalizing responsibilities and creating kin networks, thereby cementing the foundation of civilization.
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Tue, 20 May 2008 00:00:00 GMT
California Supreme Court struck down the state's ban on same-sex marriage, and ruled that civil unions are not a legally adequate substitution for marriage. Are then civil union supporters the legal equivalent of segregationists? The California court thinks so, writes Benjamin Wittes.
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Fri, 16 May 2008 09:00:00 GMT
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- May 16, 2008, 9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
The National Healthy Marriage Resource Center and the Center on Children and Families at Brookings Institution are cosponsoring a series of three seminars to share the lessons learned to date from research and the experience of over 300 healthy marriage and relationship programs located across the USA serving diverse populations. In this seminar on May 16, researchers, program administrators and program participants focused on key lessons learned about the economic factors that affect couples' lives.
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Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT
The evolution of American politics is bound up with demographic and geographic change. So what are the trends to watch in 2008? A number of them are examined by Visiting Fellow Ruy Teixeira and AEI's Karlyn Bowman.
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Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:00:00 GMT
In 1960, roughly 70 percent of 30-year-olds were married, financially independent and starting a family. By 2000, fewer than 40 percent of 30-year-olds had done the same. William Galston discusses the trend and implications.
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Sun, 30 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Iran’s large youth population has led to overcrowding in schools, gender imbalance in the marriage market and increased pressure on the nation’s rigid formal labor market. By focusing on three crucial transitions, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani and Daniel Egel analyze the challenges facing youth in Iran and opportunities for the country to tap into its demographic dividend.
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Sat, 01 Sep 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Wage subsidies and work requirements hold the promise of alleviating many social problems, especially poverty. Brookings’s Ron Haskins writes about counteracting the negative behaviors of adolescent boys and young men in a new brief.
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Sun, 15 Jul 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Melissa S. Kearney and Phillip B. Levine take an analysis of the relationship between rates of socioeconomic disadvantage among women at birth and their subsequent rates of early childbearing.
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Tue, 01 May 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Article by Ron Haskins and Isabel V. Sawhill (May 2007)
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Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Testimony by Isabel V. Sawhill (April 26, 2007)
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Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Melissa S. Kearney and Phillip B. Levine examine the impact of state-level Medicaid policy changes that expanded eligibility for family planning services to higher income women and to Medicaid clients whose benefits would expire otherwise.
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Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 GMT
Marriage, long the centerpiece of Middle Eastern life, is in crisis. The reason: a new generation of young men cannot afford to marry--a fact that's destined to exacerbate many of the region's social and political problems.
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Wed, 31 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Opinion by Diane Lim Rogers, San Francisco Chronicle (5/31/06)
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Wed, 03 May 2006 00:00:00 GMT
Testimony of Ron Haskins House Committee on Appropriations (5/3/06)
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Sat, 01 Apr 2006 00:00:00 GMT
With so much attention on promoting and sustaining marriage among low-income couples who already have children, policymakers risk forgetting about the need to reduce unwed childbearing in the first place. These initiatives are needed for a number of reasons.
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Thu, 01 Sep 2005 00:00:00 GMT
High U.S. rates of family dissolution and lone-parent child rearing impose large costs on individuals and society. A variety of new federal and state initiatives are attempting to promote family formation and healthy marriage among interested couples, including poor and minority couples who have had babies outside marriage. Careful evaluations of these programs should identify which are most effective.
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Mon, 07 Jun 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Paper by William G. Gale and Laurence J. Kotlikoff (5/21/04)
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Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 GMT
Article by William G. Gale, The Milken Institute Review (Winter 2004)
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Mon, 01 Oct 2001 00:00:00 GMT
Isabel V. Sawhill enumerate steps to be taken that will have the potential to maintain the progress made over the past decade in reducing teen and out-of-wedlock pregnancies.
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Mon, 05 Apr 1999 00:00:00 GMT
HOW CONGRESS CAN SAVE MARRIAGE:
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Sun, 01 Nov 1998 00:00:00 GMT
Policy Brief #38, by Isabel V. Sawhill (October 1998)