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June 16, 2025
Better Boys: The Difference Good Dads Make
…nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Linda Malone-Colon, dean of Hampton University’s School of Liberal Arts and Education, is executive director of the National Center for Black Family…
June 16, 2025
The ‘Father Divide’ and What it Means for Our Kids
…The Importance of Fatherhood in Virginia” was released this week from a diverse group of researchers, including scholars from the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, the National…
June 13, 2025
Good Fathers, Flourishing Kids: The Importance of Fatherhood in Virginia
…National Center for Black Family Life at Hampton University, the Institute for Family Studies, and the National Marriage Project. Read the full report here. UVA – Good Fathers, Flourishing Kids ReportDownload…
May 13, 2025
Out of Work and On the Dole — Is Uncle Sam Contributing to Young Men’s Malaise?
…We should note that national surveys, such as the Current Population Survey, tend to underreport the share of adults on such programs. To Finley’s point, the share of young men receiving one…
April 29, 2025
Good Jobs, Strong Families: How the Character of Men’s Work Is Linked to Their Family Status
…communities, especially across America’s “Rust Belt,” experienced significant disinvestment and fell into blight. These economic shifts, both in the Rust Belt and nationwide, took a devastating toll. They pushed working-class…
April 25, 2025
What’s holding women back from starting a family?
…at the University of Virginia for the National Marriage Project’s spring conference, cosponsored with the Wheatley Institute. Cooper is 23 and had celebrated her one-year anniversary the week before the event….
March 17, 2025
Progressives Are Starting to Come Around on the Importance of Marriage and Fatherhood
…that are struggling so much with depression … with suicide?” Ryan said. “I’m pro-women … [but] we need a national agenda for our boys, too.” Another major Democrat turning his…
March 12, 2025
Why Alabama Needs The Success Sequence
…non-intact families (84%). What’s more: the Success Sequence is broadly popular with Americans of all kinds. A study by Nat Malkus at the American Enterprise Institute suggests that 76% of American parents…
March 11, 2025
The American Dream in Ohio depends on stronger Buckeye families
…family stability and fertility. For instance, just 47.6% of Ohio children are raised in intact, married families for the duration of childhood, well below the national average of 53%. This…
February 27, 2025
The GOP Is Still the Pro-Marriage Party
…child poverty than the breakdown of marriage. And the classic American pursuit of happiness has proven more elusive of late—with reports of happiness falling across the nation in recent years—because…