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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 fl