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Wilcox, W. Bradford Herrin, Sam Smith, Jesse Wang, Wendy |
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The Family-to-Prison-or-College Pipeline: Married Fathers and Young Men's Transition to Adulthood Institute for Family Studies (13 June 2024). Also: https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-family-to-prison-or-college-pipeline-married-fathers-and-young-mens-transition-to-adulthood Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: Institute for Family Studies Keyword(s): College Education; College Graduates; Education, Higher; Education, Postsecondary; Employment Tenure; Employment, Intermittent/Precarious; Family Characteristics; Family Structure; Family Studies; Fathers; Fathers and Sons; Fathers, Absence; Fathers, Involvement; Fathers, Presence; Incarceration/Jail; Job Patterns; Job Separation/Loss; Job Tenure; Transition, Adulthood; Work History Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. A growing minority of young men are floundering. “Failure to launch” is a description that’s all too common. Consider working a stable job—a decent proxy for whether someone has their life together. For young men (ages 16-24), labor force participation rates are dropping. In 1980, the share of young men who were looking for or had a job was 84%, but now it has dropped to 60 percent. Likewise, male enrollment in college is declining, so quickly, in fact, that only about 4-in-10 college students are now male. Finally, young men are 3-4 times more likely to spend any time in jail or prison compared to young women by the time they turn about 30, according to the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (1997). The bottom line is that on many fronts, too many young men are not successfully transitioning into adulthood today. These negative male trends have been addressed by books like Boys Adrift by Leonard Sax or Of Boys and Men by Richard Reeves. They have even caught the eye of major figures on the left like Melinda Gates, someone known for championing women’s issues, who is pledging $20 million to Reeves’ American Institute for Boys and Men to address this male malaise. Public intellectuals like Reeves, Scott Galloway, and Jonathan Haidt have blamed the falling fortunes of young men on shifts in our economy, schools that don’t do a good job of serving our boys, or technology that distracts adolescent males from real life. But they have largely overlooked an even more fundamental factor in a boy’s life: whether or not he grew up in an intact, married home with his father. This research brief remedies this gap by looking at young men’s likelihood of graduating college or ending up in prison or jail in terms of their family structure growing up. The most striking finding is that young men from non-intact families are more likely to land in prison or jail than they are to graduate from college, whereas young men raised by their mar ried fathers are significantly more likely to graduate from college than spend any time in prison/jail. |
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Wilcox, W. Bradford, Sam Herrin, Jesse Smith and Wendy Wang. "The Family-to-Prison-or-College Pipeline: Married Fathers and Young Men's Transition to Adulthood." Institute for Family Studies (13 June 2024).
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