Lecture: Frank Furstenberg Presents "Destinies of the Disadvantaged"
The Center for Research on Families welcomes Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. from the University of Pennsylvania and Center for Population Studies.
His presentation, "Destinies of the Disadvantaged: Teenage Childbearing and Public Policy" is the first of this year's Tay Gavin Erickson Lecture Series.
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Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr. is one of the nation's leading scholars on issues facing the American family. As a preeminent demographer and family sociologist, Furstenberg has been recognized for his research and written extensively about social class in contemporary American lives and life chances, the family in the context of disadvantaged neighborhoods, adolescent sexual behavior, the transition from adolescence to adulthood, divorce, fatherhood, step-parenting, children's well being, and urban education. His recent books include: On the Frontiers of Adulthood: Theory, Research, and Public Policy, edited with Richard A. Settersten, Jr., and Rub?n G. Rumbaut (2005), Managing to Make It: Urban Families in High-Risk Neighborhoods with Thomas Cook, Jacquelynne Eccles, Glen Elder, and Arnold Sameroff (1999), Divided Families with Andrew J. Cherlin (1991) and Adolescent Mothers in Later Life with J. Brooks-Gunn and S. Philip Morgan (1987). Professor Furstenberg is the current Chair of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on the Transition to Adulthood.
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The Tay Gavin Erickson Lectures began in 1999 though an endowment established in memory of Tay Gavin Erickson.
