Children and Families Legislation

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Sep 26, 2025

Connecticut’s Novel Prenatal Substance Exposure Policy Is Associated With Declining CPS Reports And Foster Placements

Connecticut's de-identified CPS notification system for prenatal substance exposure, implemented in 2019, led to a 51% decline in CPS reports over 36 months, balancing innovation with concerns from both parents' and children's advocates.
Commentary

Oct 21, 2024

The Complexities of Abortion Access for Minors in Virginia

In Virginia, the rules for minors seeking abortion care have many burdensome implications for clinics, hospitals, and patients. This raises an important question: Is this what Virginia lawmakers intended?
Tool

Sep 23, 2024

Assessing Coverage and Costs Associated with State-Funded Health Insurance (ACCESS) for Immigrants Estimator

This tool allows users to view health insurance coverage by state as of September 2024 for immigrants who are ineligible for federally funded programs and to calculate the estimated enrollment and costs for covering immigrant populations.
Press

Sep 23, 2024

Online Tool Estimates Cost of State-Funded Health Insurance for Immigrants; Can Aid Discussions About Whether to Extend Coverage

A new online tool allows state policymakers and other stakeholders to estimate the potential cost of expanding state health insurance programs to include individuals who do not qualify solely due to immigration status, a strategy already adopted by many states as a way to extend health coverage to more people.
Research

Sep 23, 2024

A Tool to Estimate the Impact of Expanding Health Insurance Options for Noncitizen Immigrants: Methods Report

The authors describe the data and methodology used to develop an online tool that allows state policymakers and stakeholders to estimate the enrollment and cost implications of expanding Medicaid or Marketplace-like coverage to ineligible immigrants.
Press

May 13, 2024

After 20 Years of Same-Sex Marriage, Research Finds No Harms to Different-Sex Couples; Growth for Overall Support of Marriage

Over the 20 years that same-sex couples have been able to marry in the United States, there have been no negative effects on marriage, divorce or cohabitation among different-sex couples.
Research Summary

May 13, 2024

Legalizing Marriage for Same-Sex Couples Did Not Harm Family Formation in the United States: Twenty Years of Evidence

Twenty years after the first marriage licenses were issued to same-sex couples in Massachusetts, this brief describes the effects of legalizing marriage for same-sex couples in the United States on family formation among the general U.S. population.
Research Summary

May 13, 2024

Legalizing Marriage for Same-Sex Couples Benefited LGBT Individuals and Their Children: Twenty Years of Evidence

Twenty years after the first marriage licenses were issued to same-sex couples in Massachusetts, this brief describes the effects of legalizing marriage for same-sex couples in the United States on LGBT individuals and their children.
Research

May 13, 2024

Twenty Years of Legal Marriage for Same-Sex Couples in the United States: Evidence Review and New Analyses

Twenty years after the first marriage licenses were issued to same-sex couples in Massachusetts, this report provides an evidence review and new analyses of the effects of granting legal status to marriages of same-sex couples in the United States.
Commentary

Jul 15, 2022

Abortion Is Power

The Supreme Court's recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will affect much more than women's access to abortions. Abortions allowed women to escape abusive and even deadly relationships. Now that door is closing, state by state.
Data Viz

Apr 7, 2022

Lessons Map: An overview of five case studies in the field of early childhood development

This Lessons Map is an aid to navigating five case studies produced by RAND Europe for the Bernard van Leer Foundation on efforts to make changes at scale in the area of early childhood development.
Commentary

Apr 4, 2022

The Marriage Plot

For more than a quarter century, the U.S. government has been sending an unmistakable message to poor, single mothers: Get married. If America genuinely wants to address poverty and achieve gender equality, this has to change.

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A Review of Twenty Years of Legal Same-Sex Marriage in the United States

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Connecticut’s Novel Prenatal Substance Exposure Policy Is Associated With Declining CPS Reports And Foster Placements

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Assessing Coverage and Costs Associated with State-Funded Health Insurance (ACCESS) for Immigrants Estimator

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A Tool to Estimate the Impact of Expanding Health Insurance Options for Noncitizen Immigrants: Methods Report

After 20 Years of Same-Sex Marriage, Research Finds No Harms to Different-Sex Couples; Growth for Overall Support of Marriage

Legalizing Marriage for Same-Sex Couples Did Not Harm Family Formation in the United States: Twenty Years of Evidence

Legalizing Marriage for Same-Sex Couples Benefited LGBT Individuals and Their Children: Twenty Years of Evidence

Twenty Years of Legal Marriage for Same-Sex Couples in the United States: Evidence Review and New Analyses

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Lessons Map: An overview of five case studies in the field of early childhood development

The Marriage Plot

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