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March 17, 2025
How State Policymakers Can Save the Nuclear Family
…falling prospects of family life across the country, state policymakers need to take three steps. First, they should promote marriage (one of the biggest predictors of family formation) in public…
March 11, 2025
The American Dream in Ohio depends on stronger Buckeye families
…The challenge, then, facing Ohio leaders is to take steps to strengthen marriage and family life across the state. Policymakers should ask public schools to teach the Success Sequence(which underlines the…
February 18, 2025
Family-Friendly Policies for the 119th Congress
…marriage penalties are three specific areas of interest to lawmakers who want to make America more family friendly. Read the PDF. Introduction America is in a baby bust, with birth…
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…
September 11, 2024
Doing Right by Kids: A Book Event
…school reform and properly assessing student outcomes, and AEI’s Beth Akers addressed the absence of accountability and some of the cultural issues surrounding higher education. The event concluded with a…
August 15, 2024
Women Want More Children Than They’re Having. America Can Do More to Help
…hedonistic reasons. In explaining why she is childless, Beth Davis, a marketing professional, told The Wall Street Journal that she and her husband “have more time and energy to commit to ourselves,”…
May 1, 2024
The closing of the American heart
…importance of marriage for economic security and the pursuit of happiness, policymakers and cultural elites must do a better job of making marriage attractive and attainable to ordinary young adults….
April 18, 2024
Back from the brink: The intellectual tide is turning on marriage and civil society
…to confront the roots of these problems without regard to their ideological provenance. The professors, journalists, policymakers, professionals and Hollywood tastemakers who dominate the heights of our culture seem to…
March 4, 2024
As the family goes, so goes the state. Utah gets this
…Utah policymakers advanced policies designed to reinforce marriage and strong and stable families across the state. These policies reflect their data-driven understanding of what is required to advance the welfare…
March 4, 2024
The state of the union isn’t strong because of the state of our unions
…heavy price. But policymakers — including the president — pay too little attention to marriage, and its importance to the underlying social fabric of our country. What, then, could Biden…