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June 16, 2025
The ‘Father Divide’ and What it Means for Our Kids
…Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families and Save Civilization.” Maria Baer is a journalist and co-host of the “Breakpoint This Week” podcast with The Colson Center for Christian Worldview….
April 25, 2025
What’s holding women back from starting a family?
…The median age at first marriage for American women is now 28.6. What’s more: a record share of young women, about one-third, are projected to never marry. Cooper told the crowd at UVA…
March 17, 2025
How State Policymakers Can Save the Nuclear Family
…free school lunches and paid family leave that lend direct state support to the care of kids. Moreover, blue states’ commitment to higher education, an egalitarian family life and delayed…
March 17, 2025
Progressives Are Starting to Come Around on the Importance of Marriage and Fatherhood
…he’s seen the data indicating males are in trouble. “On every single indicator we care about,” Moore said to the Washingtonian, “young men and boys are falling off.” Until very recently,…
March 11, 2025
The American Dream in Ohio depends on stronger Buckeye families
The “American dream” is a “better, richer and happier life for all our citizens of every rank,” wrote the historian James Truslow Adams over a century ago. Yet with ordinary Americans succumbing to “deaths…
February 25, 2025
We Replaced Families with Uncle Sam. DOGE Must Make the Right Choices When Cutting
…government power back to smaller units: families, communities and states. The Center for Christian Virtue and the Institute for Family Studies recently collaborated on a new study called “The Hope…
February 25, 2025
Ohio Ranks Only 29th In The Family Structure Index
Ohio ranks 29th in family strength, according to a new report from the Institute for Family Studies and the Center for Christian Virtue. The Hope and a Future report spotlights the state of Ohio…
October 30, 2024
The Geography of Fertility — Where are the Babies?
…care of kids. Moreover, blue states’ commitment to higher education, an egalitarian family life and delayed family formation is also a plus in Cahn and Carbone’s book as they believe…
July 29, 2024
The Rise of ‘Marriage Deserts’ and What We Can Do About Them
…secure Americans are married. Churchgoers, Asian families, college graduates and Republican voters each enjoy the benefits of a stable, married family. Here there are abundant networks of role models for…
April 18, 2024
Back from the brink: The intellectual tide is turning on marriage and civil society
…often have discounted the importance of the nation’s houses of worship. One recent New Yorker article, for instance, suggested faith left Christian men tortured by “guilt and shame that makes…