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

Married Women With Children and Male Partners Do More Housework Than Single Moms

Specifically, married and cohabiting mothers report more housework than never-married or divorced/separated mothers, but all mothers report about the same amount of child-care time.

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Project: Demography and Economics of Aging and Alzheimer’s Disease

Use of Biomarkers in Predicting Health and Mortality

Biomarkers, or biological indicators, are increasingly employed in empirical studies of human populations to understand physiological processes that change with age, diseases whose onset appears linked to age, and the aging process itself.

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PRB Discuss Online: Integrating Family Planning and HIV Programs

(2010) There is an urgent need for stronger links between family planning/reproductive health and HIV policies, programs, and services.

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Slower Growth of U.S. Retirement Destinations Linked to Economic Downturn

(2010) Population growth has slowed in U.S. retirement destinations, despite the large cohort of baby boomers who have begun to reach retirement age, according to new population estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau.1

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The United States at 300 Million

HOW WE HAVE CHANGED SINCE THE UNITED STATES WAS A NATION OF 200 MILLION (September 2006) The United States is set to reach a milestone in October. It will become the third country—after China and India—to be home to at least 300 million people.

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Vasectomy an Option for African Men in Family Planning

(2011) "Vasectomy is like putting money in the bank. [It] is a long-term investment, money you [would] have otherwise used to buy expensive birth control methods," says Dr. Charles Ochieng, a medical doctor in Kenya.

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