PRB Discuss Online: The Increasing Complexity of Family Life in the United States
(2011) Today, Americans are more likely to marry and to divorce than in almost any other Western nation. How has this pattern changed over the last 10 years?
(2011) Today, Americans are more likely to marry and to divorce than in almost any other Western nation. How has this pattern changed over the last 10 years?
In the book Five Generations at Work: How We Win Together, for Good, authors Patrick Dunne and Rebecca Robins describe how we’re living in a time of unprecedented demographic change, where five generations work alongside each other in an ideologically and politically fractured environment.
(2010) Female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female genital cutting or female circumcision, is the cutting, altering, or injuring of any or all parts of the female genitalia for nonmedical purposes.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
PACE’s Youth Multimedia Campaigns training program equips youth advocates with the skills to create innovative digital campaigns, tell compelling population health stories, and build movements for policy change within their countries.
(2010) The concept of "race" has always been controversial, given ugly associations with slavery, the eugenics movement, and racism.
PRB was a partner on Evidence to End FGM/C: Research to Help Girls and Women Thrive, a UKAID-funded research program to end female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) within one generation.
Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health
Among countries with a youthful population, a window of opportunity to achieve key development goals opens across four sectors―health, education, the economy, and governance―as fertility declines and the age structure of the population gets older.