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• America’s Disappearing Fathers

  July 3, 2008

  I ran across this article today while researching fatherless and divorce fallout statistics in the midwest. It appears the National Center for Health Statistics has some recent national research to show some dramatic numbers in this area. These are the finding based on the Wall Street Journal article: The nation’s out-of-wedlock birth rate is 38%. Among [...]

• Youth Favor TV and Web

  July 1, 2008

  “During a typical week, teens spend an average of 12.5 hours, up from 10.7 hours last year. ‘Tweens spend an average of 6.5 hours online, compared to 5.2 hours last year.” A June 19th study from research firm Youth Trends finds that mobile, web, and TV usage among teens and “tweens” is on the rise. Data [...]

• Lives Worth Saving Gang Summit

  June 23, 2008

  I arrived at Santa Ana College at 7 am this last Saturday to be a part of a year long collaboration between Orange County Juvenile Probation, Catholic and Protestant Detention, UYWI and some other gang specialist organizations. We hosted almost 200 leaders for the “Lives Worth Saving” Gang Summit. It was truly a [...]