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Generation At Risk
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Author : Fran Sciacca
language : en
Publisher: Moody Publishers
Release Date : 1991
Generation At Risk written by Fran Sciacca and has been published by Moody Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Religion categories.
Over the past four decades society has slipped into a mold of complacency and self-indulgence. With an "If it feels good, do it" attitude, we have become worshipers of self, while our culture has gone morally bankrupt. Is there any way to change? Sciacca offers suggestions as to what the church is doing or should be doing to promote Christian thinking in our kids, our families, and our society. - Back cover.
Generations At Risk
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Generations At Risk written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Reproductive toxicology categories.
Generations At Risk
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Author : Ted Schettler
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 1999
Generations At Risk written by Ted Schettler and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Medical categories.
Compelling evidence suggests that human exposure to some toxic chemicals can have lifelong and even intergenerational effects on reproduction and development. Generations at Risk presents compelling evidence that human exposure to some toxic chemicals can have lifelong and even intergenerational effects on human reproduction and development. The result of a collaboration involving public health professionals, physicians, environmental educators, and policy advocates, this book examines how scientific, social, economic, and political systems may fail to protect us from environmental and occupational toxicants. It is an important sourcebook for those concerned about their own health and that of their loved ones, as well as for medical and public health workers, community activists, policymakers, and industrial decision makers.
A Generation At Risk
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Author : Paul R. Amato
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2000
A Generation At Risk written by Paul R. Amato and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Social Science categories.
Just what do we know about the current generation of young Americans? So little it seems that we have dubbed them Generation X. Coming of age in the 1980s and '90s, they hail from families in flux, from an intimate landscape changing faster and more profoundly than ever before. This book is the first to give us a clear, close-up picture of these young Americans and to show how they have been affected and formed by the tremendous domestic changes of the last three decades. How have members of this generation fared at school and at work, as they have moved into the world and formed families of their own? Do their struggles or successes reflect the turbulence of their time? These are the questions A Generation at Risk answers in comprehensive detail. Based on a unique fifteen-year study begun in 1980, the book considers parents' socioeconomic resources, their gender roles and relations, and the quality and stability of their marriages. It then examines children's relations with their parents, their intimate and broader social affiliations, and their psychological well-being. The authors provide rare insight into how both familial and historical contexts affect young people as they make the transition to adulthood. Perhaps surprising is the authors' finding that, in this era of shifting gender roles, children who grow up in traditional father-breadwinner, mother-homemaker families and those in more egalitarian, role-sharing families apparently turn out the same. Also striking are the beneficial influence of parental education on children and the troubling long-term impact of marital conflict and divorce--an outcome that prompts the authors to suggest policy measures that encourage marital quality and stability. Table of Contents: Family, Social Change, and Transition to Adulthood Study Design, Measures, and Analysis Relationships with Parents Intimate Relationships Social Integration Socioeconomic Attainment Psychological Well-Being Conclusions, Implications, and Policy Recommendations Appendix: Tables References Index Reviews of this book: An important new book...Paul Amato and Alan Booth painstakingly analyze data from a large national sample of families, seeking especially to isolate the independent effects of divorce on children from the effects of preexisting marital conflict. The results call into question the rationalizations of our high divorce rate...Amato and Booth estimate that at most a third of divorces involving children are so distressed that the children are likely to benefit. The remainder, about 70%, involve low-conflict marriages that apparently harm children much less than do the realities of divorce...This remarkably countercultural conclusion will provoke many predictable reminders about toxic marriages and many repetitions of the familiar bromide that marital unhappiness, not 'divorce per se' is the real problem. But because of this book, we also will have a more informed discussion of the moral dimensions of the decision to divorce. Amato and Booth have helped us to recognize more clearly the potential conflicts between parental responsibility and adult desires for freedom, romance, sexual gratification and self-actualization. --Norval D. Glenn and David Blankenhorn, Los Angeles Times Reviews of this book: [This] longitudinal study of the consequences of family instability and change in the USA...focused upon two generations--the parents and their offspring--and looked at how the relations between them changed over the survey time...[The] study provides an excellent opportunity to test some favorite popular assumptions--such as whether witnessing unhappiness in the parental home would lead to the inability to have happy relationships in one's own home. Or does having a 'liberated' or non-traditional mother harm children's development? The advantage of a longitudinal study is that we can examine these differences on the same people over time...This study would be of relevance to youth researchers interested in the 'life course' perspective as it provides a range of data and information of a kind which is seldom normally available...This is a well organized and documented study discussing quantitative findings in an accessible and enlightening way. --Claire Wallace, Journal of Youth Studies Reviews of this book: A Generation at Risk summarizes [Amato and Booth's] pioneering longitudinal study which, between 1980 and 1992, interviewed a representative sample of 1,193 married persons with children. Amato and Booth also interviewed the adult children in 1992 and 1995. The book uses the life-course perspective and considers the impact of changing historical contexts on these families. It is intended for professionals, although the conclusions are vital to anyone who has even a passing interest in changes in contemporary families...This landmark work will frame scholarly discussions of parent-child dynamics for many years and belongs in every major library. --Larry R. Peterson, History Reviews of this book: This important and disturbing book...carefully examines how parents' socioeconomic resources, gender roles, and degree of marital happiness affect their children's lives...It strikes a resounding note of alarm at recent trends in American family life. The work is based on the results of a finely drawn 15-year study of a nationwide sampling of married couples and their adult offspring. There are no glittering generalizations here; Amato and Booth provide rich contextual detail and easily readable tables as they consider, for example, the effect of maternal employment on daughters' social integration (largely positive)...Public libraries should not be deterred by this book's scholarly presentation: it speaks to us all. --Ellen Gilbert, Library Journal Reviews of this book: What are the long-term effects on children of the great changes in the family that have occurred over the past several decades?...Paul Amato and Alan Booth's impressive study is one of the first to provide us with long-term data on this generation...Theirs is one of the few longitudinal surveys to measure marital quality and then to follow offspring for a long period, during which some of the parents divorce...A Generation at Risk is an important addition to the literature on the long-term effects of families on their children. --Andrew J. Cherlin, American Journal of Sociology
Losing Generations
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Losing Generations written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with categories.
For millions of adolescents ... the context of their lives is one of meager and uncertain income, dilapidated neighborhoods, inadequate schools, dangerous streets, and violent homes. /// Such environments not only lack the basic support systems [but] are actually dangerous and destructive to young people growing up in them. /// This volume breaks new ground by exploring these [disadvantaged] settings in which American youth are expected to mature to responsible adulthood. /// To focus on settings is to recognize that context has a profound influence on the shape of a young person's entire life as well as the day-to-day decisions that result in high-risk behavior. This book recognizes that there are roadblocks that even the most energetic youth cannot overcome. /// If we expect to help them, we must take a hard look at the policies that--intentionally or unintentionally--create the threatening environments in which these young people are growing up. This volume illuminates the challenging policy decisions that must be made. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved).
Losing Generations
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Author : National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on High-Risk Youth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Losing Generations written by National Research Council (U.S.). Panel on High-Risk Youth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Political Science categories.
"This volume breaks new ground by exploring settings in which American youth are expected to mature to responsible adulthood. Although no one would argue with the fact that individual initiative is important to life achievement, any young person who tries to move forward does so within complex surroundings of family, economics, education, and overall community life." "This new focus comes none too soon: The major settings of adolescent life have become increasingly beleaguered, especially in our inner cities among minorities and ethnically separated populations. Crime and economic hardship have grown while community institutions have disintegrated. Such settings have become the crucible in which the lives of increasing numbers of America's youth are being shaped." "To focus on settings is to recognize that context has a profound influence on the shape of a young person's entire life as well as the day-to-day decisions that result in high-risk behavior. After two decades of focus on individuals, this book recognizes that there are roadblocks that even the most energetic youth cannot overcome." "Fully one-quarter of adolescents today may be at risk of failing to achieve productive adulthood. If we expect to help them, we must take a hard look at the policies that - intentionally or unintentionally - create the threatening environments in which these young people are growing up. This volume illuminates the challenging policy decisions that must be made."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
How To Pool Risks Across Generations
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Author : Michael Otsuka
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2023-05-28
How To Pool Risks Across Generations written by Michael Otsuka and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-28 with Philosophy categories.
How to Pool Risks across Generations makes the case for the collective provision of pensions, on fair terms of social cooperation. Through the insurance of a mutual association which extends across society and over multiple generations, we share one another's fates by pooling risks across both space and time. Resources are transferred, not simply between different people, but also within the possible future lives of each person: from one's more fortunate to one's less fortunate future selves. The book opens with an investigation of the longevity and investment risk that even a single individual on a desert island would face in providing for her old age. From this atomistic starting point, it builds up, within and across the chapters, to increasingly collective forms of pension provision. By joining together, it is possible to tame the risks we would face as individuals each with our own private pension pot. A collective pension can be justified as a 'social union of social unions': an enduring corporate body, which is formed by agreements to pool risks, in a manner that involves reciprocity between the various individuals that constitute the collective. Even though all individuals age and die, a collective pension scheme remains evergreen, as the average age of members remains relatively unchanged, through the influx of new members to replace those who retire. It is therefore possible to smooth risks indefinitely across as well as within generations, to the mutual advantage of each.
How To Pool Risks Across Generations
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Author : Michael Otsuka
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
How To Pool Risks Across Generations written by Michael Otsuka and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Pensions categories.
How to Pool Risks across Generations makes the case for the collective provision of pensions, on fair terms of social cooperation. Through the insurance of a mutual association which extends across society and over multiple generations, we share one another's fates by pooling risks across both space and time.
Children Having Children
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Author : Thomas G. David
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Children Having Children written by Thomas G. David and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Teenage parents categories.
Itng 2021 18th International Conference On Information Technology New Generations
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Author : Shahram Latifi
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2021-06-04
Itng 2021 18th International Conference On Information Technology New Generations written by Shahram Latifi and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-04 with Computers categories.
This volume represents the 18th International Conference on Information Technology - New Generations (ITNG), 2021. ITNG is an annual event focusing on state of the art technologies pertaining to digital information and communications. The applications of advanced information technology to such domains as astronomy, biology, education, geosciences, security, and health care are the among topics of relevance to ITNG. Visionary ideas, theoretical and experimental results, as well as prototypes, designs, and tools that help the information readily flow to the user are of special interest. Machine Learning, Robotics, High Performance Computing, and Innovative Methods of Computing are examples of related topics. The conference features keynote speakers, a best student award, poster award, service award, a technical open panel, and workshops/exhibits from industry, government and academia. This publication is unique as it captures modern trends in IT with a balance of theoretical and experimental work. Most other work focus either on theoretical or experimental, but not both. Accordingly, we do not know of any competitive literature.