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667 Annals Am. Acad. Pol. & Soc. Sci. 8 (2016)

handle is hein.cow/anamacp0667 and id is 1 raw text is: The Decline of
the American
Family: Can
Anything Be
Done to Stop
the Damage?
By
RON HASKINS
and
ISABEL V. SAWHILL

Keywords: Moynihan; family; marriage; nonmarital
births; race; child development; poverty
W e have spent many years studying what
has been happening to the American fam-
ily. Haskins first addressed the issue when he
was with the House Ways and Means Committee,
which has jurisdiction over several social pro-
grams, especially the programs for adoption and
foster care and the Aid to Families with
Dependent Children program, which required
knowledge of research on family well-being. He
began writing about family issues shortly after
he joined the Brookings Institution in 2001
(Haskins and Sawhill 2003). Sawhill's first book,
coauthored with Heather Ross, and published
in 1975, was about the growth of single-parent
families and their consequences for children
(Ross and Sawhill 1975).
Ron Haskins holds the Cabot Family Chair in Economic
Studies at the Brookings Institution, where he codirects
the Center on Ch ildrlen and Families. He is also a senior
consultant at thw Annic E. Casey Foundation. He is the
president of the Asociation for Public Policy Analysis
and Managenn, t.
Isabel V Sawhill is a senior fellow in Economic Studies
at the Brookings Institution, where she has also been a
vice president and center director She served in the Bill
Clinton administration as an associate director of the
Office of Management and Budget.
NOTE: Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill were the win-
ners of the 2016 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize,
awarded annually by the American Academy of Political
and Social Science to recognize individuals who are
champions of social science in the public realm-
women and men whose careers demonstrate how pub-
lic policy can be more effective when it is informed by
sound science. Each year, we invite the Moynihan Prize
recipients to deliver a public lecture on a topic of their
choosing. This is the third year that the lecture has
been published as a stand-alone piece in The ANNALS.
Correspondence: rhaskins@brookings.edu
DOI: 10.1177/0002716216663129

ANNALS, AAPSS, 667, September 2016

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