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...Current Population Survey. Though factoring in affluence can be statistically tricky, an analysis by Steven Martin, associate professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, shows that the proportion of affluent families with four or more kids increased from 7% in 1991-96 to 11% in 1998-2004. Andrew Cherlin, a sociology professor at Johns Hopkins University, speculates, "For most people, two is enough because there are so many other competing ways to spend your time and money. People prefer to have fewer kids and invest more in them. My guess is the wealthy are having more because they enjoy...
...coordinator of Harvard Students for Barack Obama. But the event also drew large crowds from Boston University, Boston College, Northeastern University, and Tufts University. The fundraiser produced one of the largest student turnouts in Obama’s campaign so far, according to Reid H. Cherlin, press secretary for Obama’s New Hampshire campaign. Gazing into the sea of college students—some wearing “Obama” t-shirts or holding up “Obama ’08” signs—the senator called on students to join his campaign...
...they could get involved with the process. “What’s going to determine the success of this campaign is whether the students who are interested in Obama, feel like they’ll be able to make a difference,” said Reid Cherlin, the press secretary for the senator’s New Hampshire campaign. “It’s about getting the work done.” While students would also be allowed to research policy-based issues, the majority of the work would be hands-on—a task...
...while mothers tend be better organizers. So far, though, these differences have been measured in married parents; little research has compared male against female single-parent homes. "The fathers taking custody of their kids are not the grumpy, macho, distancing fathers of stereotype," says Johns Hopkins University demographer Andrew Cherlin...
Grandparents who are thinking of seeking court-ordered visitation, though, should consider not only their chances of winning but other consequences as well. Andrew Cherlin, a researcher at Johns Hopkins University and author of Divided Families, counsels that "after divorce, children who do the worst are those who feel caught in the middle. The most important factor shouldn't be what is best for grandparents but what is best for children...