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    Valentine’s Day Fact Sheet on Sexual Health

    Posted on February 14, 2009 in Fact Sheets
    Experts: Adina Nack

    What do you plan to give your valentine this February 14 – a bouquet of flowers, a heart-shaped box of chocolates, a candlelit dinner? Have you considered the gift that keeps on giving — a sexually transmitted infection? STD’s have reached an all time high, mostly because they are being talked about much less. Sexually […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Fertility,Reproduction & Sexual Health / Health & Illness / Reproductive Health
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    It’s April 15: Do You Know Where Your Income Tax Dollars Are Going?

    Posted on April 15, 2008 in Brief Reports
    Experts: Andrew Cherlin

    Americans tend to think we are better off than families in most other industrial countries because we pay lower income taxes. But when we factor in the higher amount Americans pay for health care, child care, and education, the comparison is not always in our favor. Where do American families’ tax dollars go and what […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Economic Inequality / Health & Illness / Health Care / Labor & Workforce / TANF & Public Assistance / Work & Family
    dollars, maternity leave, paternal leave, tax, tax incentives, welfare Read More

    Recent Changes In Fertility Rates In The United States: What Do They Tell Us About Americans’ Changing Families?

    Posted on February 11, 2008 in Brief Reports


    The number of births in the US increased by 3 percent in 2006, and has now reached levels not seen since the baby boom (1961), according to a recent report released by the National Center for Health Statistics (1). This development has generated considerable excitement, because the slow but persistent revival of fertility over the […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Child Welfare / Fertility,Reproduction & Sexual Health / Health & Illness / Immigrant, Mixed Status & Transnational Families / Latino Families
    affluent families, birth trends, childbearing, fertility, population growth Read More

    Reversing Course: The Impact of “Faith-Based” Sexual Health and Family Planning Policies at Home and Abroad

    Posted on January 17, 2006 in Brief Reports


    By AnneMarie Murdock Research Intern Council on Contemporary Families Recent trends in U.S. sexual education and reproductive health policies threaten to jeopardize the significant progress made during the 1980s and 1990s in improving teen sexual health domestically and HIV/STD infection rates, unwanted pregnancies, and reproductive health care worldwide. This is due to many reasons, one […]

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    Topics of Expertise: Fertility,Reproduction & Sexual Health / Gender & Sexuality / Health & Illness / Health Care / Reproductive Health / Singles & Dating
    abstinence, family planning, reproductive health, sexual education Read More
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    Chloe E. Bird

    Senior Sociologist, RAND Corporation; Professor of Sociology and Policy Analysis, Pardee RAND Graduate School

    Daniel Carlson

    Assistant Professor of Family, Health, and Policy in the Department of Family and Consumer Studies at the University of Utah

    Deborah Carr

    Professor of Sociology, Boston University

    Robert Crosnoe

    Chair, Department of Sociology, University of Texas at Austin

    Lauren Jade Martin

    Associate Professor of Sociology, Penn State University

    Adina Nack

    Professor of Sociology, California Lutheran University

    Christina Paxman

    Assistant Professor of Communication and Department Coordinator, Minot State University

    Luke Russell

    Assistant Professor, Illinois State University

    Darby Saxbe

    Associate Professor, University of Southern California

    Kevin Shafer

    Associate Professor of Sociology, Brigham Young University & McMaster University

    Susan Short

    Professor of Sociology and Director of the Population Studies and Training Center, Brown University

    Debra Umberson

    Centennial Professor in Liberal Arts and Professor of Sociology, University of Texas

    Ellen Wartella

    Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor of Communication, Professor of Psychology, and Professor of Human Development and Social Policy, Professor of Medical Social Sciences Director, Center on Media and Human Development School of Communication Chair, Department of Communication Studies

    Kristi Williams

    Professor, Department of Sociology, The Ohio State University

    Sarah Wright

    Executive Director, Social Work in Progress

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