January

Is there more going on in the hookup scene than meets (men’s) eyes?

Has “hooking up” become the defining feature of college life? Does everyone do it? Does everyone want to? New research from the University of Illinois at Chicago, a diverse urban, public university with more commuters than on-campus residents, suggests that college sex is something quite different for the typical commuting student.

Why are divorce rates higher in religiously conservative “red” states and lower in less religiously conservative “blue” states?

Philip Cohen examines the many early victories, as well as the setbacks, in the War on Poverty.

The rapid rise in nonmarital fertility is arguably the most significant demographic trend of the past two decades. The proportion of births to unmarried women grew 46 percent over the past 20 years so that more than four in ten births now occur to unmarried women. Nonmarital fertility is quickly becoming a dominant pathway to family formation, especially among the disadvantaged.