University of Pennsylvania Department of Sociology
3718 Locust Walk
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6299
fff@ssc.upenn.edu
215.898.6718
215.898.2124 (fax)

My current research projects focus on the family in the context of disadvantaged urban neighborhoods, adolescent sexual behavior, cross-national research on children's well-being, and the transition from adolescence to adulthood. I am currently the Chair of the MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Transitions to Adulthood. The Research Network was established in 2000 to examine the changing nature of early adulthood. For more information about our research initiatives please visit our website at www.transad.pop.upenn.edu.

I am also part of a Latin American Family Network, a group of researchers from Southern Cone nations and Mexico that have been working to develop a comparative survey of family change and the well-being of children in Latin America.

Distinguished Contributions to the Public Policy of Children Award from the Society for Research on Child Development, 2005; Fellow, Fulbright Senior Specialists Awards 2002, 2003, 2004

Most important books:

Early adulthood in cross-national perspective. March 2002. The Annals Vol. 580

On the frontier of adulthood: Theory, research, and public policy, with Richard A. Settersten, Jr., and Rubén G. Rumbaut (Eds.). 2005. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Destinies of the disadvantaged; The life course of teenage mothers and their children. Manuscript in progress.