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March 27, 2024
Narcan Babies
…to the danger. In New Mexico, legislators attempted to pass a bill classifying fentanyl exposure as child abuse. Though the bill received unanimous endorsement from the state’s Courts, Correction, and…
March 12, 2024
Family Dinners Offer a Silver Lining in a Bleak Social Capital Landscape
…not widen over time. Our colleague, Dan Cox, has surveyed American adults and asked them retrospectively whether they had “family meals everyday growing up.” He found that the share answering…
September 21, 2023
How Health Privacy Laws Are Hurting College Students and Their Families
…children’s conditions. In 2019, Kathy Schussler and her husband, Jeffrey Schussler, sued Iowa State over their son Dane’s suicide. Dane had gone to seek counseling over a traumatic incident and…
September 17, 2023
Tracking ‘two-parent privilege’ in Utah
…percentage of married two-parent families is associated with a larger percentage of students graduating from high school in states across the union, according to research by Brad Wilcox at the University of Virginia,…
August 10, 2023
The Real Reason People Leave Religion
More than a decade ago, the Pew Research Center released a path-breaking study on people without religion: “Nones” on the Rise. At the time, I was in graduate school studying political science…
June 7, 2023
The Price We’ll Pay for Our AI Future: More Loneliness
…used technology to handle dangerous, monotonous, and menial tasks for generations. And there are definitely areas where AI chatbots could be useful — especially when it comes to business. Software…
November 16, 2021
The Changing Face of Social Breakdown
…with life. We have to worry about a failure to get going before we can worry about the dangers of going too far and pushing too hard. The dangers of…