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Now Available: Children and Electronic Media, Edited by Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Elisabeth Hirschhorn Donahue. This volume is accompanied by a Policy Brief, Executive Summary and chapter summaries.

Also Available: The Next Generation of Antipoverty Policies, Edited by Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill. This volume is accompanied by a Policy Brief, Executive Summary and chapter summaries.

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Youth and the Internet: Click here for a practical guide to help teens navigate cyberspace safely.


Webcasts and Podcasts

The Future of Children now has webcasts featuring summaries of the research found in many of our volumes and policy briefs.
Click here for these half hour presentations on Poverty, Marriage, Social Mobility, Childhood Obesity and School Readiness.


PointSmart.ClickSafe. Online Safety Summit. Click here for highlights and complete video coverage of this day-long summit on children and the internet.


Unmarried Mothers. Editor-in-Chief Sara McLanahan discusses young, unmarried mothers on "On Point." Click here to listen.


Students and Electronic Media: Teaching in the Technological Age. Click here to watch presentations from our conference on media and the classroom. Segments include electronic media research; innovative uses of technology in the classroom; and professional development programs.


Upcoming Volumes

"Juvenile Justice" (Vol. 18, No. 2) to be published fall 2008.


"America's High Schools" (Vol. 19, No. 1) to be published spring 2009.


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