Tuesday, October 29, Left Behind: Why Trends in Family Structure and Parenting Are Setting Some Kids Up to Fail

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Cosponsored by AEI and the Institute for Family Studies

This is the inaugural lecture from the Home Economics Project, a joint AEI-Institute for Family Studies venture.

Seventy percent of American children growing up in poor households will not reach the middle class. What role do family structure and early-childhood parenting play in making the ladder of economic opportunity easier or harder to climb? And how should public policy address these challenges?

Join AEI and the Institute for Family Studies for a discussion of how education reform, vocational programs, and family policy can better engage America's new family structure landscape and give a new generation of children a better chance at success.

Participants

Keynote Presentation:

Isabel V. Sawhill, Brookings Institution

Panel Discussion:

Robert Lerman, Urban Institute and American University

Michael Petrilli, Thomas B. Fordham Institute

W. Bradford Wilcox, AEI and University of Virginia

Moderator:

Eleanor Barkhorn, The Atlantic

To be held from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. at AEI, 1150 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor

To attend go to: www.aei.org