ABSTRACT
The Family Impact Seminar (FIS) was established in 1976 to study the substantive, administrative, and political feasibility of developing a process for assessing the impact of public policies on families. The Seminar's first 18 months were devoted to exploring the concept of family impact analysis, developing statements on values, constructing an analytic framework for the assessment of public policies, and issuing its interim report. From the results of the studies, FIS will develop guides for use in local or state family impact analyses and will test the materials in cooperation with eight diverse organizations which will perform local family impact analyses. The Seminar, which is part of the Institute for Educational Leadership at George Washington University, is composed of 24 academicians and policymakers with interests in families and public policy. Teenage pregnancy is a social phenomenon that has received increasing attention and alarm.
