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New Research is a supplement to The Family in America. Each New Research supplement features ten to twelve readable abstracts from professional journals in the fields of sociology, psychology, medicine, law, anthropology, and history. These cast light on the vital importance of the natural family and the serious consequences that derive from its decline.
 Archive 2007;  New Research;  Volume 21;  Issues 1 - Current 

  

Sep / Oct
2007

 v-21; i-09

Are We Ignoring Young Men?; Welfare States Weaken Work Norms; Lethal Combination; Marriage vs. the Marlboro Man; Dubious Fun With Sinners; Fat Chance; Fatherless Childhoods, Early Deaths; Casual Sex Not So Casual; Singe Parenthood and Urban Poverty
Jul 2007 v-21; i-07 Where’s the Smoke?; Libertines at Risk; Lasting Happiness; Coeds At Risk; Why Cohabitation Poses Risks; Overwhelming Evidence; The Missing Asset of the Poor
Jun 2007 v-21; i-06 School Readiness: A Phony Issue?; A Jaundiced Look at Stepfathers; Weaned Too Soon; A Chip on Their Shoulder?; Divorced Mom, Depressed Teen; Don’t Go Breaking My Heart
May 2007 v-21; i-05 Wedlock or Lockup?; School Readiness: A Phony Issue?; Blue Laws Not So Blue; The End of an Era?; Status at Birth Sets the Pace; No Support
Apr 2007 v-21; i-04 Lethally Reliable Predictor; Lessons from Europe; Solving the Fertility Paradox; Not-So-Gay Gays; Shadow of a Departure, Challenge of a New Arrival; Violent Homes, Violent Neighborhoods; Hitting the Bottle—Hard!
Mar 2007 v-21; i-03 SPECIAL ISSUE: A NEW RESEARCH ROUNDUP #2; Diploids or Divorce?; Danes on Drugs; Who’s Leading the Retreat from Marriage?; Teenage Pregnancy: The Fathers;  What Big Government Has Wrought; Religion Makes the U.S. Different; The Wrong Prescription; The Deconstruction of Motherhood; Saved From the Industrial Revolution, Trashed by the Friends Generation; The Mysterious Marriage Advantage; Executing Criminals In Utero?; Traumatized Teens; Grand Mal; Teen Pregnancy Rates Reconsidered; Mating Patterns Die Hard; Denominational Differences; Shacking Up Latino Style; Lessons from Europe; Diverging Perspectives on Divorce; The Lesbian as Lush
Feb 2007 v-21; i-02 Prison-Bound Boys; Forget the Neighborhood, Look at the Family; Is Preschool Really Necessary?; Another Fault of No-Fault; Family Structure Is Key; Single Moms, Sick Children; The Dark Shadow of Abortion
Jan 2007 v-21; i-01 A Global Pattern; When More Men Are Available,; Women Prefer Marriage; Marriage Nurtures the Affections,; Especially Toward Children; The Take of Casino Gambling; College Women Wising Up; Genetic Links, Wedding Ties

 

 Archive 2006;  New Research;  Volume 20;  Issues 1 - 12 

  

Dec 2006 v-20; i-12 Tardy Troublemakers; Homosexual Unions: Rare and Fragile; Married Fathers, Involved Fathers; Unbalanced Single Mothers; Symptom of Trouble

Oct / Nov
2006

 v-20; 10/11 SPECIAL ISSUE: A NEW RESEARCH ROUNDUP ; Cause or Effect?; Abortion and the Marriage Market; The Difference a Father Makes; The Gamble of State Lotteries; Churches Key to Urban Marriage; The Depressed Only Child; An Echoed Warning; Children at Risk; Deadly Parental Divorces—Part 2; The Ironies of the Academy; Not Just Selection Effects; Punching the Clock Risks Mom’s Health; The Irony of Easy Divorce; Boys and Girls Out of Control; Better Than Prozac; Long-Lasting Harm; Protected from Sudden Death; Maturing Too Early, Suffering Too Much; Sweet Home Alabama; Teen Faith Brightens Family Ties; Depressed and Angry Victims; A Natural Division of Labor; Bait and Switch?
Sep 2006 v-20; i-09 Cause or Effect?; Abortion and the Marriage Market; The Difference a Father Makes; Churches Key to Urban Marriage; The Gamble of State Lotteries; The Depressed Only Child; Children at Risk
Aug 2006 v-20; i-08 Substantial Vows, Suspicious Scholarship; Long-Term Blues; Is This Legislation Necessary?; Bank On It!; Better Than a Hot-Line; Sobered into Parenthood
Jul 2006 v-20; i-07 Far Better Than a Pink Ribbon; Moms Still Stay Home; Feminist Dogma Debunked; Marriage Beats the Market; Persistent Peril; A Short, Gay Life

May/Jun
 2006

 v-20; i-5/6 The Essence of Fatherhood; Marriage and Self-Employment; Safe With a Spouse; Sex Roles and Marital Quality; Marriage Meltdown, Crack Crescendo; Hurting Women More; More Houses Without Spouses; A Little Extra Happiness
Apr 2006 v-20; i-04 Employed Mothers Don't Breastfeed — in Atlanta, Athens, or Amsterdam; No Way to Win a Man; Environmental Risks; Family and Friends; Coeds Motivated to Marry; Heroin and Homosexuality; Marriage Risks Down Under

Feb/Mar
2006

 v-20; i-2/3 Metropolitan Magnets for Unmarried Women; Still Hurting Children; Girls Who Strike Back; Precarious, Premarital Sex; Tough Neighborhoods; Abstinence Makes the Mind Work Harder; Still Pink, Still Blue
Jan 2006 v-20; i-01 Getting to the Church on Time; The Poetic Truth About Homosexuality; Married Americans Remain Faithful; The ABCs of Teen Drinking; The Ambiguous Family; Moynihan Saw It Coming; Confucius Would Smile; Parents or Coaches?; Avoiding Wedlock — or Just Postponing It?

 

 Archive 2005;  New Research;  Volume 19;  Issues 1 - 12 

  

Jan 2006 v-20; i-01 Getting to the Church on Time; The Poetic Truth About Homosexuality; Married Americans Remain Faithful; The ABCs of Teen Drinking; The Ambiguous Family; Moynihan Saw It Coming; Confucius Would Smile; Parents or Coaches?; Avoiding Wedlock — or Just Postponing It?
Dec 2005 v-19; i-12 Baby Boom Economics; No Trade-Off Between Quantity and Quality; Quantity Is Quality; Losing Parent, Then Home, Then…; Blue Children; Morose and Maladjusted; Unhealthy Vigil
Nov 2005 v-19; i-11 Mothers’ Attitudes Matter; Shaken by 9/11; Two Generations of Breakdown; Depressed Without Mom, Delinquent Without Dad; Plus ca change ...; Time Well Spent; The Faith-Based Initiative: On a Wing and a Prayer
Oct 2005 v-19; i-10 Another Downside of Cohabitation; Cohabitation and Inequality; The Unbalanced Budgets of Cohabitors; Smoking Singles; Trouble in the Preschool; Marriage and the Maternal Breast; Changed Laws, Changed Behavior
Sep 2005 v-19; i-09 Not All There; Marriage Down Under Places Happiness on the Up; The Loss of the Marriage Imperative; Day Care vs. Breastfeeding; Cohabitation Leaves Children Behind; More Than "Just the Facts"; Talking Turkey
Aug 2005 v-19; i-08 Who Will Care for the Elderly?; Breastfeeding Intentions; The Best Youth Asset: Married Parents; Toddlers in the Emergency Room; Academic Advantage; Contraceptives No Cure; Social Security vs. Fertility
Jul 2005 v-19; i-07 The Flip Side of Sex Discrimination; Gender Police Now Fault the Home; Women's Choices, Not Workplace Bias; Catholic Schools Make the Grade; Fleeing Fornication; Day-Care Peril; Trouble in the Neighborhood?
Jun 2005 v-19; i-06 Working Mother, Working Wife; Cohabitation: A Greater Risk for Children; Not Just Poverty; Black Babies in Peril; The Short Single Life; Virginity, the Healthy Alternative; Role Reversal Risks; The Presence of a Husband
May 2005 v-19; i-05 Scrutinizing Single and Cohabiting Parents; The Civility of Fundamentalism; Overwhelmed Mothers, Troubled Children; Teens Need Moms and Dads, Not Just Two Parents; Vulnerable to Violence; Wives Set the Culture, Not Just the Table
Apr 2005 v-19; i-04 Madison Avenue and the Family; Learning from the 1964 Civil Rights Act; Male Job Prospects and Imprisonment; Single Moms Seeing the Shrink; The Peril in Children’s Rights; Homosexual Harmony?; Struggling Teens
Mar 2005 v-19; i-03 THE NATURAL FAMILY: A MANIFESTO
Feb 2005 v-19; i-02 Missing Mums, Missing the Grade; High Risk for Infants; Parents Break Up, Teen Sons Crack Up; Mom Doesn't Have a Clue; Not Getting Their Shots; Staying Chaste; Stepfamilies: Not the Real Thing
Jan 2005 v-19; i-01 Strong Medicine Needed; A Blast from the (Fertile) Past; Victimized Teens, Stranded Adults; Belligerent, Blue, or Behind; Just Hangin' Out; Academic Couples Find Gender Equity Doesn't Work; The Power of Pro-Life Legislation

 

 Archive 2004;  New Research;  Volume 18;  Issues 1 - 12 
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Dec 2004 v-18; i-12 The Prolonged Lives of the Prayerful; The Jailor as Surrogate Father; Rich and Sterile; Democracy Delivers for Marriage; Marriages Saved, Divorces Lost
Nov 2004 v-18; i-11 Where Have All the Fathers Gone?; Men Dying Alone; Reefer Madness in Miami; The Ancestry of Ozzie & Harriet; The Downside of Sending Single Moms to Work; Postmodern Postadolescence; Fatherless, Rootless
Oct 2004 v-18; i-10 Even Babies Prefer Moms at Home; The Profits of Pledging; The Man Still Proposes; Do Faith-Based Initiatives Nurture Faith?; Who Dumps Whom?; Dad on the Payroll, Mom in Church; Children Seeing the Shrink
Sep 2004 v-18; i-09 Mom’s Crazy Work Schedule; Around the Family Dinner Table; Dad’s Gone, and His Daughter’s SAD; Fewer Brides Using Maiden Names; Diversity and Divorce; Do Women Work Out of Necessity?; Divorce Undermines “Ownership Society”
Aug 2004 v-18; i-08 Home Schools on the Digital Edge; Working Women, Drinking Women; The Illusion of “Having It All”; Solitary in the Schoolroom; Parents Shacking Up, Children Cracking Up; The Power of Inherited Faith; Home Alone
Jul 2004 v-18; i-07 Health Appeals Not Appealing; Profs Can Trust Married Students; Stressed-Out Toddlers; Primed for Abuse; The Wages of Women in the Workplace; Liberated—and Incarcerated
Jun 2004 v-18; i-06 De Beauvoir and Divorce; Steering Clear of the Weed; Recipe for Riot; Fewer People, More Bankruptcies; Commitment and Cohabitation; Wedlock Keeps Them Off the Dole
May 2004 v-18; i-05 Gender Roles and Social Capital; Trouble in the Third Generation; Rural Religion; Divorce Depresses Dutch Daughters; Last One in Brussels, Turn Out the Light; The Tobacco Trap; Lethal Childhood Wounds

Apr 2004

v-18; i-04

 Child Well-Being North of the Border; Sobered into Fidelity; Poor Children, Unhealthy Children; Target for Burglars; Fat Chance; Black Women in Peril; Family Ties vs. Internet Porn

Mar 2004

v-18; i-03

Women Who Shack Up: Prey to Pushers and Brutes; Teens in Trouble; Turning the School into a Psychiatric Clinic; Jane Austen Revised; Working Moms, Partying Kids; Better Dead than Divorced?

Feb 2004

v-18; i-02

Teens and Moms at Home; When Kids Don’t Marry, Parents Pay; Conservative Social Gospel; Attitudes Are Everything; The Many Sides of Religion and Sex ; Homosexual Parents:The View from the Bench; Rich but Disturbed

Jan 2004

v-18; i-01

 Confronting “the Fertility Crisis”; Parents Who Split Up, Then Shack Up; Weaned Too Soon; Staying in the Hospital; Tongue Tied

 

 Archive 2003;  New Research;  Volume 17;  Issues 1 - 12 
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Dec 2003

v-17; i-12

Angry Delinquents; Long-Lived Women; “Good Enough” Mothering?; Overeager or Scared Off; Wealthily Wed; At the Church or On the Street?; Perennial Pathology; Prime Market for Tobacco

Nov 2003

v-17; i-11

Decades of Poverty; Failing Females; Violent Vengeance; Losing the House; All About Family; Grand Theft Auto; Homosexual Harmony?; Long-Lived Women; “Good Enough” Mothering?; Angry Delinquents

Oct 2003

v-17; i-10

Fear in the Blood; Family Devotion; Angry Words, But No Blows; Weaned By the State; Voicing Their Pain; Unchosen & Frozen

Sep 2003

v-17; i-09

Neurotic in the Netherlands; Explaining the Gender Gap; Paying for Other People’s; Divorces; Day Care Bullies; The Doctors’ Orders; Women In Peril; Weaning Too Fast

Aug 2003

v-17; i-08

Grandparent Gap; Stressed Out Teens, Sick Young Adults; Dollars for Day Care, and More for Doctors; Absent Fathers, Confused Daughters; Class Bully; Still Incubating Trouble; No Substitute for Marriage

Jul 2003

v-17; i-07

Stilling the Tempest Over Teen Mothers; Separate Lives; Hopeless Danish Lifestyles; Early Weaning; Killer Neighborhoods; Vicious Treadmill

Jun 2003

v-17; i-06

The Great Escape—Back Home; Carcinogenic; Driven to Drugs; Not So Blue; Looking at IVF; Home Alone XXX; Teenage Faith-land

May 2003

v-17; i-05

Everything Upside Down; Not Just the Magazines; Real Opposition to Abuse; Nearly a Cure-All; Stressed Out Parents; Misbehaving Children; Finnish Finances; Closing the Black-White Gap

Apr 2003

v-17; i-04

Worse than Lutefisk; The Class of 2006; Stressed Out; No Dip in Day Care; No Squaring This Circle; Neighborhood Life; Softening the Blow?

v-17; i-2/3

Looking Up to Dad; Are Teens the Trouble?; Joinin’ the Gang; Vulnerable Mother, Absent Father; Breast Is Best; Epoch-Making Change; Gang Girlz
Jan 2003 v-17; i-01

Home Cooking; Vows vs. Violence; Pediatric Triage; Tough Teens; Silent Victims; Parental Paralysis, Part II; Sedentary Teens

 

 Archive 2002;  New Research;  Volume 16;  Issues 1 - 12 
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Dec 2002

v-16; i-12

Celebrating Diversity-in the Morgue; Adult Medicine, Child Patients; Bank on It; Learning to Say No; Groomed for Success; Parental Paralysis
Nov 2002

v-16; i-11

Money for Mom, Bane for Baby; You’re Free—to Go to Jail; Model Citizens; Devoted Daddies; In a Down Mood; More Test Tube Troubles
 Oct 2002

v-16; i-10

Like A Young Bay Tree; Desperate for Family; Maligned Males; Destined to Divorce; From Violent Homes; Blue Finns; Risky Business; Media Mayhem
Sep 2002

v-16; i-09

God of Our Fathers?; Marked for Trouble; Mendacious Mantra; The Adopted Child; Blacks Committed to Wedlock
Aug 2002

v-16; i-08

A New Rift in American Politics; Chilling Shadow; The Career Woman’s Baby; The Marlboro Man’s Best Friend; Pink Ribbons and Mothers’ Milk; Unforgivable
Jul 2002

v-16; i-07

Handicapped Learners; Just Say Maybe?; Does ADD Add Up, Part II; Animal House Redux; Gay is not Happy; ICSI or Icky?
Jun 2002

v-16; i-06

Stronger Unions?; Stress Relief; Nothing to Lose?; Modern Marriage; Losing in Leapfrog; Fragile Unions
 May 2002

v-16; i-05

Moving with Mom; Delaying Motherhood, Imperiling Infants; Dumping the Baby; Faith of Our Fathers?; Dealing with Stress; Not Just Genes; American Abusers; Putting Stock in Marriage
Apr 2002

v-16; i-04

The Other Crack Babies; Worse and Worse; Long-Term Harm; In the Hospital; Ferocious Teens; Home Sweet Home School; Babies in Danger; Not Driving Over the Edge
 Mar 2002

v-16; i-03

Tough Choices Ahead; Just the Same–Only Different; Unmet Needs; Grounds for Divorce; How does ADD Add Up?; Contraceptive Catholics