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Unintended pregnancy and taxpayer spendingEmily Monea
Brookings Institution, Center on Children and Families, Washington, DC, USA
Perspect Sex Reprod Health 43:88-93. 2011..Nearly half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended. These pregnancies likely represent a substantial cost to taxpayers, but national-level estimates of these public costs have been lacking...
An ounce of prevention: policy prescriptions to reduce the prevalence of fragile familiesIsabel Sawhill
Center on Children and Families, Brookings Institution
Future Child 20:133-55. 2010Isabel Sawhill, Adam Thomas, and Emily Monea believe that given the well-documented costs of nonmarital births to the children and parents in fragile families, as well as to society as a whole, policy makers' primary goal should be to ..
