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October 3, 2025
The Link Between Maternal Drug Use and Rising Infant Mortality
…1,000 live births from 8.9 per 1,000 in 2023. “Every single infant loss represents a family devastated, a community impacted and a future cut short,” State Health Officer Dan Edney…
September 25, 2025
The Golden Age of Public Housing—and Why It Didn’t Last
If Americans have any shared image of public housing, it is one of dilapidated and even dangerous “projects” and locations of concentrated poverty. But there was a time—a brief shining…
September 23, 2025
A Second Reconciliation Bill Should Focus On Reducing Deficits
…for OBBB savings policies that haven’t even taken effect yet. But those dynamics mask a dangerous and unsustainable budgetary status quo. Interest on the current debt already exceeds all spending…
September 3, 2025
The Shifting Composition Of SNAP Households
…as Brad Wilcox and his coauthors caution, the picture is not uniformly positive. Overall, marriage rates continue to decline, suggesting that while marriage as the preferred institution for raising children…
August 27, 2025
In Pursuit: Marriage, Motherhood, And Women’s Well-Being
…J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy & the State, Working Paper No. 331, July 12, 2023. 7 Daniel A. Cox, “Is marriage better for men?” American Storylines, November…
August 22, 2025
Are conservative women embracing the ‘Supermom’ ideal?
…Brad Wilcox is director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, senior fellow of the Institute for Family Studies and a Deseret News contributor. Ken Burchfiel is…
August 4, 2025
Where Are the Pro-Family Senators?
J.D. Vance and Mitt Romney had their differences when they served as senators together in the last Congress. But they shared a common commitment to family policies that served all families with…
July 30, 2025
Is Marriage Back? Divorce Is Down, Family Stability Is Up
…not just to children but also to adult men and women across the nation. Brad Wilcox is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, Senior Fellow at the Institute for…
July 29, 2025
Why Marriage Survives
“There is zero statistical advantage” to getting married if you are a man in America today, Andrew Tate argued in a viral 2022 video on “why modern men don’t want marriage.”…
July 24, 2025
Divorce In Decline: About 40% Of Today’s Marriages Will End In Divorce
…Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies. Brad Wilcox is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, Senior Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, and nonresident Senior Fellow at the…