INEQUALITY AND FAMILIES (WEEK 2)

Robert D. Putnam, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, chapters 2 + 3.

W. Bradford Wilcox, The State of Our Unions: The Social Health of Marriage in America (National Marriage Project, University of Virginia, 2010), http://stateofourunions.org/2010/SOOU2010.pdf, pp. 27-53.

Andrew Cherlin, The Marriage-Go-Round: The State of Marriage and the Family in America Today (2009), pp. 159-180.

Kathryn Edin and Timothy J. Nelson, Doing the Best I Can: Fatherhood in the Inner City (2013), pp. 202-228.

Annette Lareau, Unequal Childhoods: Class, Race, and Family Life, 2nd ed. (2011), pp. 1-8 & 263-303.

National Scientific Council on the Developing Child (working papers)

1. National Scientific Council on the Developing Child (2004). “Young Children Develop in an Environment of Relationships,” Working Paper No. 1.

2. National Scientific Council on the Developing Child. (2005/2014). “Excessive Stress Disrupts the Architecture of the Developing Brain,” Working Paper No. 3, updated edition.http://developingchild.harvard.edu/index.php/resources/reports_and_wo rking_papers/