The Urban Institute This report examines the results of five programs initiated from the 1990s through 2000 to help low-income noncustodial fathers...
Cooperative Institutional Research Program/UCLA The majority of college freshmen answering this survey reported that they had experienced the “right amount” of parental...
Journal of Adolescent Health Adolescent sexual health research studies educate youth and encourage them to practice safe sex. However, young people’s participation...
American Sociological Review High school males in contact sports such as football and wrestling are at heightened risk of participating in serious...
Bureau of Justice Statistics Among the findings reported here, based on data gathered by the National Crime Victimization Survey and the FBI’s...
UNICEF Each day about 26,000 children under age 5, most of whom live in developing regions, die from preventable causes. UNICEF is...
Healthy Teen Network This report focuses on the importance of involving at-risk youth in positive activities in order to combat teen pregnancy,...
The Forum for Youth Investment State children’s cabinets are typically made up of the heads of government agencies serving a state’s youngest...
Policy Studies Associates (PSA), the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of California, Irvine This two-year study of elementary and middle school...
National Center for Education Statistics The high school dropout rate was 3.9 percent for the 2004-2005 school year – similar to the...
U.S. Census Bureau Thirty-three percent of 26- to 29-year-old women have a bachelor’s degree – an increase of 6 percentage points since...
Georgetown University Health Policy Institution, Center for Children and Families A federal rule issued in August to limit the expansion of state...
Fight Crime: Invest in Kids, California Researchers say that high school dropouts in California are three-and-a-half times as likely as high school...
Pew Internet & American Life Project, et al Scattered throughout this comprehensive report on where the public gets its information are statistics...
National Center for Education Statistics The vast majority of the 54.8 million students enrolled in pre-kindergarten through 12th grade during the 2005-2006...
MultiState Working Families Consortium This report argues for a change in government standards to better promote a family-friendly work environment, particularly in...
UCLA AIDS Institute Newly homeless youth are more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior if they stay in non-family settings –...
University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center Teaching abstinence in schools has sometimes been justified on the grounds that abstaining...
Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, The Preteen Alliance Researchers who perused literature and studies about the best methods for obtaining information...