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10:30 am-Noon, Rubenstein Hall, Room 207
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3:30-5 pm, Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room
Felton Earls will discuss his signature work, The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods, a 10-year, $51-million epidemiological study examining the causes and consequences of children's exposure to community and family violence. His research reveals a startling finding: The most important determinant with respect to crime rates is not race, IQ, family, or individual temperament, but the willingness of neighbors to act, when needed, for one another's benefit, particularly for the benefit of one another's children. The policy implications of his work are far-reaching. In the words of a former director for the National Institute of Justice, this finding is "far and away the most important research insight in the last decade." Join us to learn more about the study's context, research agenda, major findings, new research directions and policy relevance. Click here to access the National Institute of Justice report.
Earls is professor of Social Medicine and Child Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and professor of Human Behavior and Development at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is principal investigator of two large-scale research programs. The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods is a longitudinal study on the causes and consequences of children's exposure to urban violence. His newer project, the Ecology of HIV/AIDS and Child Mental Health is a randomized community-level trial aimed at mitigating the impact of the AIDS epidemic on the growth, development and education of young adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa. Conducted in Tanzania, the work builds on strategies and results of the Chicago study to strengthen a community's capacity to protect children in the context of a major social disruption.
Reception immediately following lecture. Seating is limited. Please register for this event by April 4.
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12-1:30 pm, Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room
Felton Earls is professor of Social Medicine and Child Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and professor of Human Behavior and Development at the Harvard School of Public Health. He is principal investigator of two large-scale research programs. The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods is a longitudinal study on the causes and consequences of children's exposure to urban violence. His newer project, the Ecology of HIV/AIDS and Child Mental Health is a randomized community-level trial aimed at mitigating the impact of the AIDS epidemic on the growth, development and education of young adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa. Conducted in Tanzania, the work builds on strategies and results of the Chicago study to strengthen a community's capacity to protect children in the context of a major social disruption.
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10 am, Rubenstein Hall, Room 287
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3-4:30 pm, Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room
In response to the rapid increase in non-marital childbearing, Congress has passed new legislation providing $750,000 over the next five years for programs designed to strengthen marriage and encourage unmarried fathers to become more involved in the lives of their children. Dr. McLanahan will discuss whether increasing marriage (and possibly cohabitation) following a non-marital birth is likely to increase fathers' earnings and labor supply. The analyses are based on a new birth cohort study -- the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study -- which follows unmarried parents for the first five years after their child's birth. Results provide some support for the idea that increasing marriage will lead to increases in fathers' earnings. Results also highlight several potential weaknesses in the new marriage programs.
Featuring Sara McLanahan, the William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs at Princeton University. McLanahan directs the Bendheim-Thoman Center for Research on Child Wellbeing and is editor-in-chief of the Future of Children. Her research interests include family demography, inequality, and social policy. She has written five books, including Fathers Under Fire (1998), Growing Up with a Single Parent (1994), and Single Mothers and Their Children (1986), and over 100 scholarly articles.
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3:30-5 pm, Sanford Institute, Rhodes Conference Room
In 1965, Daniel Patrick Moynihan warned that non-marital childbearing and marital dissolution were undermining the progress of African Americans. Sara McLanahan argues that what Moynihan identified as a race-specific problem in the 1960s has now become a class-based phenomenon as well. Using data from a new birth cohort study, she shows that unmarried parents come from much more disadvantaged populations than married parents. She further argues that non-marital childbearing reproduces class and racial disparities through its association with partnership instability and multi-partnered fertility. These processes increase maternal stress and mental health problems, reduce the quality of mothers' parenting, reduce paternal investments, and ultimately lead to poor outcomes in children. Finally, by spreading fathers' contributions across multiple households, partnership instability and multi-partnered fertility undermine the importance of individual fathers' contributions of time and money which is likely to affect the future marriage expectations of both sons and daughters.
Featuring Sara McLanahan, the William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public
Affairs at Princeton University. McLanahan directs the Bendheim-Thoman Center
for Research on Child Wellbeing and is editor-in-chief of the Future of
Children. Her research interests include family demography, inequality,
and social policy. She has written five books, including Fathers Under
Fire (1998), Growing Up with a Single Parent (1994), and Single Mothers
and Their Children (1986), and over 100 scholarly articles.
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2-4 pm, Durham Public Schools Staff Training Center
2107 Hillandale Road, Durham
By invitation only.
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10:30-Noon, Sanford Institute, Room 05
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12-1:30 pm, Rubenstein Hall, Room 207
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