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Jamaican Immigrants in the United States and Canada: Race, Transnationalism, and Social Capital

income families, unlike families of his Baltimore sample. The important underlying point is that, in contrast to America, the absence of a sense of crisis permits a more fruitful choice of responses. His review of the evolution of research and policy is impressively modest and selfcritical. He is generous to those with whom he has disagreed and proven wrong. He takes their theories seriously, however ideological, examining the best evidence and conceding areas of doubt. Although few others have data which hold a candle to his own, he acknowledges his own misunderstanding of the significance of some findings in order to make the point that we are in a position only now, after many years, to understand truly some issues. Furstenberg offers us a clear, thoroughly readable description of the path of research on teen childbearing, as well as a deeply informed synthesis and thoughtful reassessment of its principal findings. His book should be read in poverty and policy courses about the life cycle of public policies addressing teen pregnancy. I also think that his book should be read by every scholar who aspires to conduct useful research, not only to reinforce the reasons for doing policy-relevant research but also to learn how to present it with honesty and humility.