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- 1From: The Future of Children. (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAccording to Sheldon Danziger and David Ratner, changes in the labor market over the past thirty-five years, such as labor-saving technological changes, increased globalization, declining unionization, and the failure...
- 2From: The Future of Children. (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedFrank Furstenberg examines how the newly extended timetable for entering adulthood is affecting, and being affected by, the institution of the Western, particularly the American, family. He reviews a growing body of...
- 3From: The Future of Children. (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThat the schedule for coming of age has been rather sharply revised both in the United States and more broadly throughout the industrialized world is by now widely recognized. Over the past decade, especially, the mass...
- 4From: The Future of Children. (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRyan Kelty, Meredith Kleykamp, and David Segal examine the effect of military service on the transition to adulthood. They highlight changes since World War II in the role of the military in the lives of young adults,...
- 5From: The Future of Children. (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAlthough access to higher education has increased substantially over the past forty years, student success in college--as measured by persistence and degree attainment--has not improved at all. Thomas Brock reviews...
- 6From: The Future of Children. (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAlmost 30 percent of the more than 68 million young adults aged eighteen to thirty-four in the United States today are either foreign born or of foreign parentage. As these newcomers make their transitions to adulthood,...
- 7From: The Future of Children. (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedD. Wayne Osgood, E. Michael Foster, and Mark E. Courtney examine the transition to adulthood for youth involved in social service and justice systems during childhood and adolescence. They survey the challenges faced by...
- 8From: The Future of Children. (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRichard Settersten and Barbara Ray examine the lengthening transition to adulthood over the past several decades, as well as the challenges the new schedule poses for young people, families, and society. The authors...
- 9From: The Future of Children. (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedConstance Flanagan and Peter Levine survey research on civic engagement among U.S. adolescents and young adults. Civic engagement, they say, is important both for the functioning of democracies and for the growth and...
- 10From: The Future of Children. (Vol. 20, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedDan Bloom of MDRC examines policies and programs designed to help high school dropouts improve their educational attainment and labor market outcomes. So called "second-chance" programs, he says, have long provided some...