Generation Unbound by Isabel V Sawhill
Over half of all births to young adults in the United States today occur outside of marriage, and most are unplanned. This trend is driving a growing class divide. At the top are planners, who are marrying and having children only after establishing a career. At the bottom--and increasingly in the middle--are drifters, who are having unplanned children early, outside of marriage, and without the stable support of a second parent. This divide is contributing to rising inequality and decreased social mobility for both young parents and their children.The political right calls for a return to traditional marriage; the left proposes more social programs to help less advantaged families. In Generation Unbound, Isabel V. Sawhill offers a provocative third approach: turning drifters into planners and thereby ensuring that more children are born into families with the means and motivation to care for them--and saving billions of dollars in social costs.
How do we make this shift? Drawing on behavioral economics, Sawhill offers recommendations for preventing unplanned pregnancy among young adults--for example, by offering greater access to long-acting reversible contraception (such as IUDs) to help stem the tide of children born to parents who are unprepared for the financial and social responsibilities of raising a child.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780815725589 |
| ISBN 10 | 0815725582 |
| Title | Generation Unbound |
| Author | Isabel V Sawhill |
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| Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
| Year published | 2014-09-30 |
| Number of pages | 212 |
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