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In the past 40 years, the face of the American family has changed profoundly. As sociologist Andrew J. Cherlin observes in a landmark new book called The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today, what is significant about contemporary American families, compared with those...
This turns out to be true across the economic spectrum. The groundbreaking research on the effects of divorce on children from middle- and upper-income households comes from a surprising source: a Princeton sociologist and single mother named Sara McLanahan, who decided to study the fates of these children with...
The Proposal isn't it - too predictable and schematic by half - but it indicates what a good Sandra Bullock film might be. She plays Margaret Tate, the top-dog editor at a Manhattan publishing company who's so hard, you could skate on her. Margaret routinely humiliates all her co...
"If not for the county [welfare program], lots of people would be out on the streets, and I'd be one of them with my two kids," says Cinnamon McDaniel. Petite and well dressed, McDaniel is hardly the Reagan-stereotype welfare mom of yore. The 26-year-old African-American...
There is real news in Italy: Ghadaffi came to Rome to visit Berlusconi, the G8 conference is coming to L’Aquila, and just a few days ago there was another earthquake in the medieval city, unemployment in Europe is at an all-time high, and voter-turnout in...