Being in Your 20's in the 21st Century
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Opening Remarks [Watch Video]

Gov. Tom Kean, Chair, The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy
Sarah Brown, CEO, The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy

Panel 1: The Third Decade [Watch Video]

Is being in one’s 20s at present is different in important ways from being a 20-something in the 1960s, 70s and 80s.

Moderator:
Robert Wm. Blum, M.D., Ph.D.,William H. Gates, Sr. Professor and Chair of the Department of Population and Family Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Panelists:
Betty Cortina, Editorial Director, Latinamagazine
William Galston, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution
Amie McLain, television reporter and former National Campaign teen advisory group member
Alexandra Robbins, author, Conquering Your Quarterlife Crisis: Advice From Twentysomethings Who Have Been There and Survived

Panel 2: The Fog Zone [Watch Video]

Many single young men and women who themselves say that they do not want to be pregnant/cause a pregnancy either use no birth control or use it sporadically. What accounts for the apparently poor use of contraception among this group of young adults?

Moderator:
Sarah Brown, CEO, The National Campaign

Panelists:
Bruce Bonn, M.D., private practice Ob-Gyn
Linda Dominguez, family planning nurse practitioner
Larry Finer, Ph.D., Guttmacher Institute 
Ivan Juzang, President of MEE
Amber Madison, author of Hooking Up and former college newspaper sex columnist

Fireside Chat [Watch Video]

What is the larger social significance of preventing teen pregnancy and unplanned pregnancy? Individuals surely gain from this prevention agenda, but is there more to it than that?

Moderator:        
Ron Haskins, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution

Chatters:             
Isabel V. Sawhill, Ph.D., Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution and President, The National Campaign
David Brooks, Syndicated Columnist, The New York Times

Panel 3: Where the Boys Aren’t [Watch Video]

Even though we all give lip service to engaging men in efforts to reduce unplanned pregnancy, honesty requires us to admit that we haven’t done a great job. What will it take to bring men into this picture, not as second tier players, but as first tier players who are committed to being consistently caring and careful?

Moderator:   
Joe Jones, President, Center for Fathers, Families and Workforce Development

Panelists:
James Daniels, Marketing Vice President, Church and Dwight, distributors of Trojan condoms
Peter Picard, Vice President of TRU
Alvaro Simmons, CEO of Mary’s Center  
Danny Rouhier, comedian and blogger

Panel 4: The Politics of It All [Watch Video]

The abortion debate—long described as the third rail of American politics—has tended to dominate public discourse on such issues as pregnancy prevention and family planning, and many more as well. However, an increasing number of politicians are now talking openly about pregnancy prevention as a way to reduce the need for abortion. Is a new day dawning? Is there reason to be optimistic that the politics surrounding the issues being discussed today can realign?

Moderator:   
E.J. Dionne, Syndicated columnist, the Washington Post and Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution

Panelists:
Joe Lockhart, Democratic political consultant, the Glover Park Group
Mark McKinnon, Republican political consultant, Public Strategies, Inc.
William Saletan, author of Bearing Right and columnist, Slate
Amy Sullivan, Senior Editor, Time magazine
Adrian Talbott, Executive Director, Generation Engage

Concluding Remarks and Observations [Watch Video]

Paul Brest, President, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Isabel V. Sawhill, Ph.D., President, The National Campaign