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PRB launches New Website to Publicize NICHD-Funded Population Dynamics Research

The Population Reference Bureau (PRB) is pleased to announce the launch of the new www.popresearchcenters.org website! The site, maintained by PRB’s Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR), explains and publicizes the findings of research from the 20+ Population Dynamics Research Centers. Funding is provided by the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child…

Using Technology to Prevent Dating Violence and Improve College Safety

As many as one in every five teenagers and college students will experience some type of violence in intimate relationships or be the victim of stalking. Campuses across the United States are struggling with ways to support students and to stem potential abuse. At a recent symposium at Johns Hopkins University, researchers and policy advocates…

Changing Demographics Reshape Rural America

Trends shaping rural life in America include unprecedented population declines, a growing Hispanic population, a disproportionate share of military veterans, and a sharp increase in “deaths of despair”—related to suicide, alcohol abuse, and drug overdose—among rural residents with low education levels. At “Small Towns/Big Changes: The Shifting Demographics of Rural America,” a briefing for members…

Having Friends, Socializing as Important to Good Health as Diet, Exercise

The more social ties people have at an early age, the better their health in young adulthood and old age, according to a 2016 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. These findings are based on data from four nationally representative, federally funded longitudinal studies that follow the same people over many…

Extreme Poverty and Health in the United States

Studies show that a growing number of U.S. families have incomes so low that the difficulties of their living situations may be masked by thinking of the poor as a homogeneous group. For instance, since the mid-1990s the number of families living on less than $2.00 in cash per person per day has more than…

U.S. Marriage, Divorce, Childbearing Trends Bring New Risks for Parents, Children

Increased childbearing outside marriage, more parents with children from more than one partner, and a shrinking share of married people in the U.S. population have brought new complexity to U.S. family life, and risks for the health and well-being of children and parents. Several noted demographers and social researchers explored current trends and their implications…