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Children, with marriage.(childbirth, teenage pregnancy)(Brief article)
Andrea Kane and Daniel Lichter, "Reducing Unwed Childbearing;' The Brookings Institution, April 2006 (brook.edu)
A record 1.5 million babies were born to unmarried women in the U.S. in 2004. Recognizing the negative aspects of this trend, Congress has approved funding for the Bush administration's "Healthy Marriage Initiative" to promote marriage through education and public advertising campaigns. Andrea Kane, with the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, and Daniel Lichter, of Cornell University, contend it is important not only to promote marriage, but also to discourage unwed childbearing.
Take the issue of births to unwed teenagers. Nearly half of all illegitimate births are to adolescent mothers. While the teen birth rate has declined, it is much higher than many other industrialized nations. Teenagers are "not good ...
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- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire May 6, 2003 700+ words
...that preventing unwed childbearing may be more important...economically, said Daniel Lichter, co-author of...business of reducing unwed childbearing." Lichter conducted...more difficult by unwed childbearing. "Hasty marriages...
- New Bush Marriage Promotion Proposal May Fall Short of Goals, Expert Says.
- News wire article from: AScribe Law News Service January 15, 2004 700+ words
...study published last year, Daniel Lichter, a professor of sociology...colleagues found that preventing unwed childbearing may be more important than...priority should be reducing unwed childbearing. Findings of his study...the business of reducing unwed childbearing." ...
- Keep them married.(I making things happen)
- Magazine article from: Policy & Practice Kane, Andrea September 1, 2006 700+ words
...are three options: 1) reduce unwed childbearing, 2) encourage and prepare unwed...healthy marriages--to reduce unwed childbearing in the first place. Why Focus on Reducing Unwed Childbearing? There are three primary reasons...
- Immigration Slows Rate of Racial and Ethnic Intermarriages in United States.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire February 6, 2007 700+ words
...significantly during the 1990s, but still continued to lag far behind other minorities. Qian conducted the study with Daniel Lichter, a professor at Cornell University. Their results appear in the February 2007 issue of the American Sociological Review...
- Co-habitation.(Demography)(Brief article)
- Magazine article from: Catholic Insight February 1, 2007 700+ words
...separate within one year; 90 per cent separate within five years. "The common view of cohabitation as a stepping-stone to marriage needs to be seriously questioned," said lead researcher Daniel Lichter (LifeSiteNews, July 21, 2006).
- Immigration Slows Rate of Racial, Ethnic Intermarriages.
- News wire article from: Ascribe Higher Education News Service February 6, 2007 700+ words
...significantly during the 1990s, but still continued to lag far behind other minorities. Qian conducted the study with Daniel Lichter, professor at Cornell University. Their results appear in the February 2007 issue of the American Sociological Review...
- Ohio State U.: Unwed mothers unlikely to wed well.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire October 25, 2005 700+ words
...recent study conducted by Ohio State and Cornell University researchers. Sociology Professors Zhenchao Qian of OSU and Daniel Lichter of Cornell University along with OSU sociology graduate student Leanna Mellott carried out the study, which currently appears...
- Is lack of marriage the real problem? (Cover Story).
- Magazine article from: The American Prospect Sawhill, Isabel V. April 8, 2002 700+ words
...single mother, her chances of marrying anyone other than the father of her child are greatly reduced. New research by Daniel Lichter shows that this failure to marry is mostly a result of the presence of children rather than the characteristics of the mothers...
- Unwed moms likelier to stay that way.
- News wire article from: UPI Health Business October 5, 2005 700+ words
...the study's authors said. "Women who bear children out of wedlock do not fare well in the marriage market," said Daniel Lichter, a professor at Cornell University and a co-author of the study, which appears in the current issue of the journal Social...
- Influx of immigrants alters mating game.
- Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) Gammage, Jeff April 2, 2007 700+ words
...States has been growing since the 1970s. Now two researchers, Zhenchao Qian, a sociologist at Ohio State University, and Daniel Lichter, a policy analyst at Cornell University, have documented an important change. Using census data from 1990 and 2000...
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