Program Readings:

Books

p Coontz, Stephanie, The Way We Never Were:American Families and the NostalgiaTrap, New York, Basic Books, 1992,

p Blankenhorn, David, Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem, New York, Basic Books, 1995

h Gelles, Richard, The Book of David: How Preserving Families Can Cost Children's Lives, New York, Basic Books, 1996

p Lerman, Robert and Ooms, Theodora, (eds.), Young Unwed Fathers, Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1993

h Luker, Kristin, Dubious Conceptions: The Politics of Teenage Pregnancies, Cambridge, Havard University Press, 1966

h McLanahan, Sara and Sandefur, Gary, Growing Up with a Single Parent,: What Hurts, What Helps, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1994

h Neely, Richard, Tragedies of Our Own Making: How Private Choices Have Created Public Bankruptcy, Champaigne, Ill.,University of Illinois Press, 1994

p Newman, Katherine, Declining Fortunes: The Withering of the American Dream, New York, Basic Books, 1993

h Popenoe, David, Life Without Father, New York, Free Press, 1996

h Samuelson, Robert, The Good Life and Its Discontents, New York, Times Books, 1995

p Sheehan, Susan, Life for Me Ain't Been No Crystal Stair, New York, Vintage, 1993

p Sidel, Ruth, Keeping Women and Children Last, New York Penguin, 1996

Stacey, Judith, In the Name of the Family: Rethinking Family Values in a Postmodern Age, Boston, Beacon Press, 1996

Reprints:

Lester Thurow, Mapping the Economic Surface of the Earth"

Katherine Newman and Chauncy Lennon, "The Job Ghetto"

Lawrence Mishel, "Rising Tides, Sinking Wages"

Edward Wolff, "How The Pie Is Sliced"

Reader:

African American Families in Post War America