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Are U.S. Girls Becoming More Violent?

(2006) Adolescent U.S. girls are being arrested in record numbers. And every year brings new media attention to mean or aggressive girls' behavior—with sensational newspaper headlines and book titles such as See Jane Hit: Why Girls Are Growing More Violent and What We Can Do About It and Sugar and Spice and No Longer Nice: How We Can Stop Girls' Violence.1 Could there be an epidemic of violence in the United States among girls—who have traditionally been considered more mature and less trouble to raise than boys?

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Changing Race and Ethnicity Questions on the U.S. Census Form Reflect Evolving Views

Census questions about race and ethnicity have evolved over time, as have Americans’ views about racial and ethnic identification.

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‘The World Is Fat’ – A PRB Policy Seminar With Professor Barry Popkin

(2008) On Dec. 10, Barry M. Popkin, professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and director of the UNC-CH's Interdisciplinary Center for Obesity, visited PRB to discuss rising obesity worldwide and his new book, The World is Fat, published by Avery in December 2008.

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PRB Discuss Online: Americans at Work, What Lies Ahead?

(2008) The aging of baby boomers and the fact that women's labor force participation has already peaked are expected to slow U.S. labor force growth in the near future.

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Project: Center for Public Information on Population Research (CPIPR)

Cohabiting Couples in the United States Are Staying Together Longer but Fewer Are Marrying

(2020) More unmarried couples today are living together, and doing so for longer than in the past, but fewer of these relationships lead to marriage, new research finds.

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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?

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Five Generations at Work: A PRB Book Talk Q&A With Author Patrick Dunne

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.

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Report. Health Sector Reform: How It Affects Reproductive Health

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Project: PACE: Policy, Advocacy, and Communication Enhanced for Population and Reproductive Health

Population Age Structure and Pathways to Inclusive, Effective Governance

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.

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