Abortion in the United States and the World
Roe v. Wade—the landmark 1973 U.
Area of Expertise: Children, Youth, and Families
The Demographic Divide: What It Is and Why It Matters
(2005) Public attention has begun to focus on the “demographic divide,” the vast gulf in birth and death rates among the world’s countries.
Marriage in the Arab World
(December 2005) Families in the Arab world are undergoing major changes as new patterns of marriage and family formation emerge across the Middle East and North Africa.
Obstacles Remain to Wide Adoption of Female Condom
Method Could be Critical in Reducing HIV Rate for Married Women
(November 2005) As the AIDS pandemic has become globalized and feminized (see figure), women in developing countries have become more at risk for HIV infection—including married women.
Obesity Creeping Up on Less Developed Countries
By asoares
(2005) In the developed world, obesity is an object of everyday conversation and mounting public concern.
The Social and Economic Isolation of Urban African Americans
By asoares
(October 2005) Hurricane Katrina’s devastation in late August of much of the northern Gulf Coast followed by the slow institutional response to the crisis exposed the impoverishment and disempowerment of many African Americans.
The Plight of Internally Displaced Persons
(2005) Americans perched on punctured rooftops in the blazing sun for days. Others slogged through rising floodwaters.
Population Fundamentals: Building a Foundation
(2005) A working knowledge of the basic vocabulary of population geography is required in order for students to master important underlying concepts.
2005 World Population Data Sheet
(2005) As world leaders focus on global poverty alleviation, deep inequalities in not only income but also health and well-being continue to plague many countries around the world.
Why Concentrated Poverty Fell in the United States in the 1990s
By asoares
( 2005) Concentrated poverty—often defined as the number of people living in neighborhoods with poverty rates exceeding 40 percent—fell substantially in the United States in the 1990s, according to a new report by the U.