UPCOMING EVENT
Tuesday, December 01, 2009
9:00 AM to 10:45 AM
Washington, DC
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. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Ron Haskins, November 05, 2009, Business Week
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. Read More
BOOK
Ron Haskins and Isabel V. Sawhill, September 15, 2009
Creating an Opportunity Society examines economic opportunity in the United States and explores how to create more of it, particularly for those on the bottom rungs of the economic ladder. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Ron Haskins, July 31, 2009, The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy
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. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Rebecca M. Blank, Kerwin Charles and James Sallee, April 27, 2009, American Economic Journal
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. Read More
PAST EVENT
Friday, March 13, 2009
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
Washington, DC
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. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
David Blankenhorn and Jonathan Rauch, March 02, 2009, Talk of the Nation, NPR
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. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Jonathan Rauch and David Blankenhorn , February 21, 2009, The New York Times
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. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Navtej Dhillon and Ragui Assaad, November 23, 2008, The Egyptian Gazette
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. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Eli Y. Adashi and Darrell M. West, October 30, 2008, The New England Journal of Medicine
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." Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Jonathan Rauch, October 26, 2008, Los Angeles Times
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. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Navtej Dhillon and Djavad Salehi-Isfahani , October 13, 2008, The Brookings Institution
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. Read More
PAST EVENT
Friday, September 19, 2008
9:00 AM to 10:30 AM
Washington, DC
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. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Navtej Dhillon, August 14, 2008, The Brookings Institution
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. Read More
RESEARCH AND COMMENTARY
Melissa S. Kearney and Phillip B. Levine, July 25, 2008, Brookings Institution
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. Read More