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The Idea Camp-Justice Edition held in Washington, DC (Aug 28-29)

August 20, 2009 — Leave a comment

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Many of society’s ills we rally around have root in family breakdown. Rather than just accept family breakdown as inevitable, research now is quite clear on what makes marriage succeed or fail and how educational approaches change the odds. Come share and explore how strengthening marriages and healthy relationships makes a difference in the well-being of children in cities across America. // The Idea Camp is a collaborative movement of idea-makers who facilitate free hybrid conferences and develop resources for people who desire to move ideas toward implementation.

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Want a husband? Get a degree

April 7, 2009 — Leave a comment

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The analysis, by Genevieve Heard, of the Centre for Population and Urban Research at Monash University, turns on its head traditional assumptions about educated women. “The assumption was the more women invested in education and career, the less interested they would be in family, and the less [they would] need to be supported by a husband,” Dr Heard said. “It was also assumed they were less traditional in their outlook on life.” Those who have been to university are now the ones with the best chance of finding a husband, leading some to worry that marriage is becoming the province of the more educated and the well-off. // Related: Marriage and Caste in America

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March 11, 2009 — Leave a comment

Will British politicians pay attention to the effects of how having only one parent around risks disastrous consequences for children? 

Iain Duncan Smith, former leader of the U.K. Conservatives, is still a parliamentarian but now has a passion and a project that is non-partisan: the restoration of civil society, including and critically — poverty reduction efforts that begin with a fresh look at how people become poor. Using British statistics, Smith says “some very, very simple facts that are irrefutable”: Compared to one’s peer group, a child in a home that is other than a two-parent family is 75 per cent more likely to fail at school, 70 per cent more likely to be a drug addict, 50 per cent more likely to have alcohol problems, 40 per cent more likely to have debt problems, and 35 per cent more likely to experience unemployment or welfare dependency. (Read full article)

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Oklahoma: Saving at-risk children

March 2, 2009 — Leave a comment

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…record numbers of Oklahomans on food stamps — more than 633,000 people in 260,000 families in fiscal 2008; more than half the state’s children — about 56 percent of the 899,000 children residing here in 2007. The Department of Human Services Director, Howard Hendrick, believes a pilot program in the Oklahoma City area holds considerable promise for salvaging young, at-risk families. Once the young men start learning more about how to be a good dad and husband, “they feel suddenly empowered.”  It goes without saying that households with two committed parents are a lot less likely to end up needing DHS services. 

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January 17, 2009 — Leave a comment

Economist Points to Families as an Answer to Recession

During her address today at the 6th World Meeting of Families, underway in Mexico City,  Maria Sophia Aguirre, a professor in the department of economics at Washington, D.C.’s Catholic University of America noted: ”The breakdown of the family damages the economy and society since human, moral and social capital is reduced and social costs increase,” (Read full article)

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Memo to President-Elect: War on Poverty

January 15, 2009 — Leave a comment

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President-elect Obama, the collapse of marriage is the most important social problem facing the nation. When the War on Poverty began in the 1960s, 7 percent of U.S. children were born outside of marriage. Today, the number is 38 percent…(Read more)

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November 26, 2008 — Leave a comment

Ron Haskins, a Brookings’ economist and onetime senior advisor to President George W. Bush on welfare policy, said Obama should fund more programs calling for personal responsibility rather than providing a handout. These programs would include things like marriage education and responsible fatherhood workshops.

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