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Focus on Poverty Research: The National Poverty Centers - Audio Recording

Presenters: Tom Kaplan, Ph.D., representing the Institute for Poverty Research at University of Wisconsin; Deborah Tootle, Ph.D., representing the Southern Rural Development Center at Mississippi State University; Jocelyn B. Richgels, Ph.D., representing the Rural Policy Research Institute, administered jointly by Iowa State University, University of Missouri and University of Nebraska; Rich Huddleston, Ph.D., Executive Director, ARK Advocates for Children and Families.

The purpose of this session is to further the knowledge of federally supported Poverty Centers and the resources available to scholars through the Centers, by listening to and interacting with a panel of leader-representatives from each of the Centers.

Chair: Pamela A. Monroe

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Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family - Audio Recording

Policy Institute for Family Impact Seminars

The Policy Institute for Family Impact Seminars aims to strengthen family policy by connecting state policymakers with research knowledge and researchers with policy knowledge. The Institute provides nonpartisan, solution-oriented research and a family impact perspective on issues being debated in state legislatures. We provide technical assistance to and facilitate dialogue among professionals conducting Family Impact Seminars in 27 sites across the country.

Evidence-Based Policymaking. Insights from Policy-Minded Researchers and Research-Minded Policymakers

This book is for those who believe that good government should be based on hard evidence, and that research and policy ought to go hand-in-hand. Unfortunately, no such bond exists. Rather, there is a substantial gap, some say chasm, between the production of knowledge and its utilization. Despite much contrary evidence, the authors propose there is a way of doing public policy in a more reflective manner, and that a hunger for evidence and objectivity does exist.

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Valuing Children: Rethinking the Economics of the Family - Video Recording

Nancy Folbre, Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

How can we measure and value the time and money that parents devote to children? Why is public support for childrearing so limited and uneven? Answers to these questions can inform the development of a progressive, pro-family agenda that extends beyond early childhood education and paid family leave to consider overall patterns of government spending and tax reform.

Introduction of Speaker: Maureen Perry-Jenkins

Session Presider: Anisa Zvonkovic

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Same-sex Marriage- Audio Recording

Same-Sex Marriage in Canada: A Triumph of Human Rights?

Hilary A. Rose, Ph.D. Marie-France Bureau, Ph.D. will give a presentation on the past (i.e., legal history), the present (i.e., current statistics), and the future (i.e., unresolved issues) with respect to samesex marriage in the Canadian context. Hilary Rose is Associate Professor, Applied Human Sciences, Concordia University, Montreal.

Marie-France Bureau is assistant professor, Faculty of Law, University of Sherbrooke, family and persons law, focusing particularly on LGBT issues.

Same-Sex Marriage in the U.S.: A Triumph of Human Rights?

Gary J. Gates, Ph.D. will discuss the legal history of marriage and relationship rights in the U.S., talk about demographics of same-sex marriage (how many, broad demographic characteristics), and where he sees the marriage equality movement heading (including how current demographic characteristics of same-sex couples might be affecting that movement).

Dr. Gary J. Gates is the Williams Distinguished Scholar, Charles R. Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy Research Center, UCLA School of Law dedicated to the field of sexual orientation law and public policy.

Facilitator: Ramona Faith Oswald

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Whanau and Family in Aotearoa New Zealand: Bicultural Approaches to Family Research, Policy and Practice - Audio Recording

Like many indigenous peoples, the Maori of New Zealand are a tribal people, and at the heart of tribal life is the whanau, the extended family. Dr. Jan Pryor, Chief Families Commissioner of the New Zealand Families Commission, and Mr. Kim Workman (Ngati Kahungunu), a member of the Commission and retired government official, will discuss specific areas of policy and research and illustrate how cultural worldview determines the way in which research or policy development is undertaken and the cultural values that influence responses.

Facilitator/Presider: Paul R. Amato

Maria Cancian
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Innovations in Family Policy - Video Recording

What are the key recent and long-term changes in family formation? What are the implications for the wellbeing of families and children, especially in the current economic context? What policy innovations are needed to support parents and children given increasingly complex family situations?

Maria Cancian, Ph.D., Professor of Public Affairs and Social Work, and an affiliate of the Institute for Research on Poverty and the Center for Demography and Ecology, La Follette School of Public Affairs, School of Social Work, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Stephanie Coontz
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Divorce and dissolution: recognizing reality

by Stephanie Coontz, Evergreen State College

To help individuals and society cope with [divorce], we need to move beyond sweeping generalizations about the "average" outcome of divorce and conduct more fine-tuned investigations into the full range of family processes and events that increase the risks of damage or augment the resilience of children and adults.

Maria Kefalas, Ph.D. and Patrick Carr. Ph.D.
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Hollowing-out the middle: how young people became the Heartland’s most precious declining resource

by Maria J. Kefalas, Ph.D., Saint Joseph’s University, and Patrick Carr, Ph.D. Rutgers University

Increasingly, demographers and policymakers warn that the future of the nation's small towns lies in their ability to attract enough educated and professionally-trained young people to keep their communities viable. After all, a new birth cannot replace one of its young people-particularly the ones with a college degree-who head off to the big city in search of better jobs and brighter opportunities. Without enough young people to purchase homes, hold jobs, pay taxes, and raise children, communities cannot survive.