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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…

December 13, 2023

Stronger Families, Safer Streets

…family. Drawing on the work of scholars like Harvard sociologist Robert Sampson—who found that “(f)amily structure is one of the strongest, if not the strongest, predictors of … urban violence…

August 16, 2023

How to Strengthen the ‘Success Sequence’ in Utah

…sociology at the University of Virginia and director of the National Marriage Project, is the Future of Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and a visiting scholar at…

June 11, 2023

Now Political Polarization Comes for Marriage Prospects

…stronger; scholars call such relationships, in which the two partners share important characteristics, “homogamous.” Homogamy matters for marriage when it predicts how a person thinks about their life goals, their ways…