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June 16, 2025
Better Boys: The Difference Good Dads Make
…boys from academic failure, as well as trouble in and outside of school. To remedy this, we convened an ideologically diverse group of scholars to research the state of fatherhood…
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
…new report from an intellectually diverse group of scholars at the University of Virginia, the American Enterprise Institute, the American Institute for Boys and Men, the Brookings Institution, the National…
April 25, 2025
What’s holding women back from starting a family?
…rates of depression, and higher rates of personal meaning and satisfaction (despite also reporting higher stress levels), according to family scholars Wendy Wang and Yifeng Wan, who presented their recent…
March 17, 2025
How State Policymakers Can Save the Nuclear Family
…Naomi Cahn and June Carbone argue that blue states have the liberal values and policies they believe make for strong and stable families. Scholars like them point to universal pre-K,…
March 17, 2025
Progressives Are Starting to Come Around on the Importance of Marriage and Fatherhood
…scholar, he did not connect the dots between the crisis in American masculinity and the distance too many boys and men have from married family life. In fact, he argued that we…
February 18, 2025
Family-Friendly Policies for the 119th Congress
…plenty of policies to make America more family friendly. In this compilation, various AEI scholars offer a small sampling of such policies. AEI, of course, does not take institutional positions,…
January 10, 2025
Marriage: America’s Keystone Institution
…than ever for the well-being of children and adults, at least on some outcomes. Scholars, journalists, professionals, and policymakers should not only take note of marriage’s rising value, but they…
June 13, 2024
Why Married Fathers Matter
…States. Meanwhile, young men are much more likely to be denizens of the basement or, even worse, prison or jail. What accounts for this male malaise? Education scholars Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Stephen…
May 1, 2024
The closing of the American heart
…down from more than 85% in the 1950s. Judging by scholarship by Melissa Kearney (2023), Paul Amato (2005), and Sara McLanahan and Isabel Sawhill (2015), there is no question that the concern I had was merited….