Generation Unbound Drifting into Sex and Parenthood without Marriage
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Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
25.09.2014
Verlag
Bloomsbury USASeitenzahl
212
Maße (L/B/H)
24.2/15.9/2.2 cm
Gewicht
485 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-8157-2558-9
Over half of all births to young adults in the United States today occur outside of marriage, and most are unplanned. This trend is driving a growing class divide. At the top are "planners," who are marrying and having children only after establishing a career. At the bottom-and increasingly in the middle-are "drifters," who are having unplanned children early, outside of marriage, and without the stable support of a second parent. This divide is contributing to rising inequality and decreased social mobility for both young parents and their children.
The political right calls for a return to traditional marriage; the left proposes more social programs to help less advantaged families. In Generation Unbound, Isabel V. Sawhill offers a provocative third approach: turning "drifters" into "planners" and thereby ensuring that more children are born into families with the means and motivation to care for them-and saving billions of dollars in social costs.
How do we make this shift? Drawing on behavioral economics, Sawhill offers recommendations for preventing unplanned pregnancy among young adults-for example, by offering greater access to long-acting reversible contraception (such as IUDs) to help stem the tide of children born to parents who are unprepared for the financial and social responsibilities of raising a child.
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