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| Vol. 18, No. 9 | Oct. 29, 1998 |
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| Vol. 18, No. 9 | Oct. 29, 1998 |
Donald Hernandez, special assistant, U.S. Bureau of the Census, will give a public lecture on "Children in Immigrant and U.S. Born Families: Poverty, Socioeconomic Risk and Welfare Reform," at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 5, in Room 209-211, Trabant University Center. A reception will follow.
A former chief of Marriage and Family Statistics Branch of the U.S. Bureau of the Census, Hernandez serves as study director of the Board on Children, Youth and Families at the National Academy of Sciences. He also is a member of the Research Group on the Sociology of Childhood of the International Sociological Association.
An active advocate for the improvement of national resources for children, Hernandez has written extensively on the changes in the economic, social and health conditions of children in the U.S.
His book, America's Children: Resources from Family, Government and Economy, has won several awards.
He also served as coeditor of Child and Family Indicators, From Generation to Generation: The Health and Well-Being of Immigrant Families and the forthcoming book, Children of Immigrants: Health, Adjustment and Public Assistance.
Sponsored by the Center for Community Development and Family Policy and the Group for Family Research, with support from the departments of Individual and Family Studies and Sociology, the lecture is part of a series offered by the College of Human Resources, Education and Public Policy.
