We are the audience, or at least one important audience, for statistics and other claims about social problems. If the public becomes convinced that prostitution or homelessness is a serious social problem, then something is likely to be done: officials will take action, new policies will begin...
And Black and Latinx students are seven times more likely to major in it. Beyond reaching younger students, progress will also require that curriculum be inclusive and representative. In summary of all this data, Michele Knobel and Leeann Stone in the Educational Policy Journal explain: “...
The fact that 63% of young people who take their own lives come from homes where fathers are not present shows just how much not having a dad around affects children’s mental health and overall happiness. If there isn’t a father figure there, young people may feel like they’ve been ...
Looking at the earnings of single dads vis a vis that of single moms, the numbers are worrying. In spite of the growing economic independence of women and the decreasing earning power of men, solo mothers are still earning way too low compared to solo fathers. Single fathers in the US hav...
The workings of the family justice system and, very importantly, the views about the system of the mothers and fathers caught up in it, are, as Balcombe LJ put it in Re W (Wardship. Discharge. Publicity) [1995] 2 FLR 466, 474, “matters of public interest which can and should be ...