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Sawhill, Isabel; Thomas, Adam; Monea, Emily – Future of Children, 2010
Isabel Sawhill, Adam Thomas, and Emily Monea believe that given the well-documented costs of nonmarital births to the children and parents in fragile families, as well as to society as a whole, policy makers' primary goal should be to reduce births to unmarried parents. The authors say that the nation's swiftly rising nonmarital birth rate has…
Descriptors: Contraception, Prevention, Birth Rate, Pregnancy