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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…
July 17, 2025
Reasonable Panic
Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick is quietly launching the next wave of food automation through his new venture, CloudKitchens. He recently revealed a 60-square-foot machine that assembles 300 custom bowls per hour, cutting labor…
June 24, 2025
Public Housing and Rental Subsidies
…Urban Development. 13. Daniel A. Hartley, “Public Housing, Concentrated Poverty, and Crime,” Economic Commentary, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, October 6, 2014. 14. “70 Current and Former NYCHA Employees Charged…
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…