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October 31, 2024

The Republican Marriage Advantage: Partisanship, Marriage, And Family Stability In The Trump Era

…Republicans and Democrats in this same age group, according to combined GSS data from 2016 to 2022.  Which Party Has More Stable, Two-Parent Families? Several scholars and journalists have argued…

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….

March 4, 2024

As the family goes, so goes the state. Utah gets this

…of what strong families contribute to society is reflected in Utah policymaking during the 2024 legislative session. For example, lawmakers enacted legislation — informed by scholarship from the Sutherland Institute and the…

October 27, 2023

What liberals don’t understand about men and marriage

…Marriage Project, is the Future of Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and a visiting scholar at the Sutherland Institute. He is the author of the forthcoming book…

August 17, 2023

The ‘Utah Family Miracle’ and Why It Matters

…Project, is the Future of Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and a visiting scholar at the Sutherland Institute. Patrick T. Brown is a fellow at the Ethics…

June 20, 2023

Down Through the Ages

…from older ones. Twenge is the rare scholar who seems to play it down the middle. Her book, which contains complete portraits of all six generations living today, is based…

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…