Population Issues Network Newswatch

Looking at the world through demographics. This blog covers population in the news. Accelerating demographic growth is now the main factor driving biodiversity loss, growing resource scarcity, poverty and social conflict. Over-production and over-consumption are worsening this ecological crisis. 7 billion in 2011 - 9.3 or 10.6 billion (UN high estimate) by 2050. 80 million additional people a year at current rates! Is it not time to rethink population growth?

Wednesday, June 29, 2011

Pew Report On Fatherhood Finds Many Are Absent

Huffington Post | Ashley Reich Posted

The number of children living apart from their fathers has more than doubled in the last fifty years, from 11 percent in 1960 to 27 percent in 2010.

That’s one of the key findings from a new report on fatherhood in the United the States that was released Wednesday by the Pew Research Center’s Social & Demographic Trends project--just in time for Father’s Day.

For full article:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/18/pew-report-on-fatherhood-_n_879629.html#s294303&title=Income_Influences_Absence