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June 16, 2025
Better Boys: The Difference Good Dads Make
…benefit from the presence of an active and engaged good dad in their lives. Brad Wilcox is a distinguished university professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and a…
June 16, 2025
The ‘Father Divide’ and What it Means for Our Kids
…school. Brad Wilcox is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia and the author of “Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families and…
June 13, 2025
Good Fathers, Flourishing Kids: The Importance of Fatherhood in Virginia
Children in Virginia are more likely to flourish when their fathers are engaged and/or present. This is one of the conclusions from Good Fathers, Flourishing Kids: The Importance of Fatherhood in Virginia, a…
June 5, 2025
The One Thing Both Parties Agree On: More Deficits and Debt
…reveals one dangerous issue that both parties agree on: significantly increasing deficits and debt. Consider the last two administrations. Before Trump’s first term started, gross federal debt stood at $20 trillion….
May 23, 2025
How AI Will Harm Working-Class Families
Donald Trump rose to power in large part by appealing to working-class men. He was able to channel their frustration with trade deals and automation that destroyed working-class jobs, helped fuel thousands of deaths of despair, and…
May 13, 2025
Out of Work and On the Dole — Is Uncle Sam Contributing to Young Men’s Malaise?
…Brad Wilcox wrote in his book “Get Married,” young men are “more likely to end up idle, to work less, and to earn less money if they came from a…
May 7, 2025
Colleges Must Help Return Student Borrowers to Repayment
…defaults is looming which could send many colleges into the danger zone. Institutions therefore have a direct stake in the success of the return to student loan repayment. Preventing defaults…
May 7, 2025
Did ‘China Shock’ Throw Millions of Americans Out of Work?
…2016 ADH paper (with Daron Acemoglu and Brendan Price). Using two different approaches, the study finds that the China Shock reduced manufacturing employment by 985,000 workers or 2.35 million workers…
April 30, 2025
Is The Collapse of Blue-Collar Marriage a Foregone Conclusion?
…from the Institute for Family Studies by Brad Wilcox and Grant Martsolf of the University of Pittsburgh, a closer look at working-class men’s jobs, in both the public and private…
April 29, 2025
Good Jobs, Strong Families: How the Character of Men’s Work Is Linked to Their Family Status
Introduction Over the last half century, the U.S. economy has shifted, moving away from manufacturing and towards being an information and service economy. The mid-1980s, for instance, were punctuated by…