The 2008 De Jong Lecture in Social Demography

Was Welfare Reform a Success? How Minority Families are Faring

Paul R. Amato is Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Demography, and Family Studies at Penn State. Dr. Amato's research focuses on marital quality, the causes and consequences of divorce, and children's well-being. In 2006, he received the Distinguished Career Award from the Family Section of the American Sociological Association. In 1994, 2000, and 2002 he received the Reuben Hill Award from the National Council on Family Relations for the best article published during the previous year to combine research and theory on the family. His most recent book (with Alan Booth, David Johnson, and Stacy Rogers), Alone Together: How Marriage in America is Changing, was published in 2007 by Harvard University Press.

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