Author: Isabel V. Sawhill File Type: pdf Over half of all births to young adults in the United States now occur outside of marriage, and many are unplanned. The result is increased poverty and inequality for children. The left argues for more social support for unmarried parents the right argues for a return to traditional marriage. In Generation Unbound, Isabel V. Sawhill offers a third approach change drifters into planners. In a well-written and accessible survey of the impact of family structure on child well-being, Sawhill contrasts planners, who are delaying parenthood until after they marry, with drifters, who are having unplanned children early and outside of marriage. These two distinct patterns are contributing to an emerging class divide and threatening social mobility in the United States. Sawhill draws on insights from the new field of behavioral economics, showing that it is possible, by changing the default, to move from a culture that accepts a high number of unplanned pregnancies to a culture in which adults only have children when they are ready to be a parent. **Review Forty years ago, Isabel Sawhill inspired a generation of scholars, including myself, with her landmark research on divorce. Now, she does it again, turning her sharp eye on non-marital childbearing with equal success. Free of ideology and comprehensive in scope, her story highlights how the decline in marriage is affecting childrens life chances and what might be done to reverse the trend.Sara McLanahan, William S. Tod Professor of Sociology and Public Affairs, Princeton University Dr. Sawhill makes a thoughtful, fresh, rigorously documented case for reducing unplanned pregnancies. She pushes against a strong headwind to argue for two parent families as often as possible. If she is right about the economc and cultural implications about pur changing procreation behavior, we have a lot of work to do.Donna Shalala, Former Secretary of Health and Human Services No one is better qualified than Belle Sawhill to tackle two of the most important questions facing America today. At a time of rapidly changing family structure, who is best able to raise children? And how can we do a better job of making sure the children who are born are welcomed by parents who are prepared to give them the love and sustained attention they deserve? Full of new research and analysis, this book will make you re-think what you know about both.Judy Woodruff, PBS Newshour Belle Sawhill has written an extraordinary book that surfaces and analyzes the most important demographic shift over the last 50 years the trend of young adults drifting into parenthood, rather than planning for it. The negative implications for the ability of young adults and their children to achieve the American Dream are profound and deeply troubling, but this superbly written book, drawing on insights from behavioral economics, provides clearheaded, actionable recommendations of how we can change course and ensure that every young person can achieve their full potential. Generation Unbound is a must read for policy makers, change agents, parents, anyone working to ensure that America continues to be the land of opportunity.Mark Edwards, Executive Director, Opportunity Nation Isabel Sawhill takes a more serious view. A former budget aide for Bill Clinton who now works at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, she has been pondering the state of the family for decades. Generation Unbound is clear, concise and admirably fair-minded.The Economist An important new book.Nicholas Kristoff, The New York Times You wont find a clearer-eyed analyst of family and poverty than Sawhill to serve as guides in charting a new way forwardConservatives will have to do better in order to compete with the vision promoted in these books, which speaks forthrightly to the left, right, and middle.Emily Bazelon, The Atlantic Isabel Sawhill of the Brookings Institution makes a compelling case that the humble IUD could help halt the ongoing rise of single mothers, who are disproportionately impoverished.Jordan Weissman, Slate ThoughtfulI highly recommend.Catherine Rampell, The Washington Post About the Author Isabel V. Sawhill is a senior fellow in Economic Studies at Brookings, where she holds the Cabot Family Chair. She also serves as codirector of the Center on Children and Families. She is the coauthor (with Ron Haskins) of Creating an Opportunity Society (Brookings, 2009) and board president of the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy.

Author: Stuart Howard Sargent File Type: pdf The Northern Song poet He Zhu is best known for his lyrics (ci) but also produced shi poetry of subtlety, wit, and feeling. This study examines the latter as a response to the options available to a late-eleventh century writer in the pentametrical and heptametrical forms of Ancient Verse, Regulated Verse, and Quatrains. Numerous comparisons are made with Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Du Fu, and other important writers. In a major advance over previous methodologies, the author uses a clear system of metrical notation to show how sound patterns reveal the poets artistic and emotional intentions. This innovation and the authors other meticulous explorations of He Zhus artistry allow us to experience Chinese poetry as never before. From the readers report not just an excellent study of an individual poet but also a model of reading the language of classical Chinese poetry. [..] opens up a world of interpretive territory heretofore seldom explored.

Author: Paul Collins File Type: epub A delectable true-crime story of scandal and murder at Americas most celebrated university. On November 23rd of 1849, in the heart of Boston, one of the citys richest men simply vanished. Dr. George Parkman, a Brahmin who owned much of Bostons West End, was last seen that afternoon visiting his alma mater, Harvard Medical School. Police scoured city tenements and the harbor, and offered hefty rewards as leads put the elusive Dr. Parkman at sea or hiding in Manhattan. But one Harvard janitor held a much darker suspicion that their ruthless benefactor had never left the Medical School building alive. His shocking discoveries in a chemistry professors laboratory engulfed America in one of its most infamous trials The Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. John White Webster. A baffling case of red herrings, grave robbery, and dismembermentof Harvards greatest doctors investigating one of their own, for a murder hidden in a building full of cadaversit became a landmark case in the use of medical forensics and the meaning of reasonable doubt. Paul Collins brings nineteenth-century Boston back to life in vivid detail, weaving together newspaper accounts, letters, journals, court transcripts, and memoirs from this groundbreaking case. Rich in characters and evocative in atmosphere, Blood & Ivy explores the fatal entanglement of new science and old money in one of Americas greatest murder mysteries.

Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafón File Type: epub 1943 de vader van Max Carver horlogemaker, uitvinder en eeuwig optimistische dromer besluit met zijn gezin naar een dorp aan de kust te verhuizen, naar een oud huis aan het strand dat ooit toebehoorde aan een beroemde chirurg, dokter Fleischmann. Maar het huis bevat vele eigen geheimen en verhalen en erachter ligt een naargeestige, ommuurde tuin met een poort waarboven een zespuntige ster troont. Als Max een kijkje gaat nemen in die tuin, krijgt hij de schrik van zijn leven. Terwijl het gezin Carver zich installeert en probeert te wennen, sluiten Max en zijn zus Alicia al snel vriendschap met Roland. Door hem ontmoeten ze zijn grootvader, de vuurtorenwachter. Hij was 25 jaar geleden de enige overlevende van een schipbreuk met de Orpheus, een wrak dat daar voor de kust ligt. Bij een duik naar het schip ziet Max iets dat hem onaangenaam treft aan de mast golft een halfvergane vlag met een afbeelding van dezelfde zespuntige ster die hij aantrof op de tuinpoort. Wanneer de drie vrienden Rolands grootvader onder druk zetten om meer te weten te komen, begint het huiveringwekkende verhaal van de Nevelprins zich in al zijn gruwelijkheid te openbaren