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June 20, 2025
What Kids Need—and Adults Need to Know—to Combat the Youth Mental Health Crisis
…in classrooms but in young adult literature, such as the best-selling dystopian “Hunger Games” series, about teens who must fight one another to the death. Another popular book, “The Hate U…
June 16, 2025
The ‘Father Divide’ and What it Means for Our Kids
…Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families and Save Civilization.” Maria Baer is a journalist and co-host of the “Breakpoint This Week” podcast with The Colson Center for Christian Worldview….
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…
April 29, 2025
Good Jobs, Strong Families: How the Character of Men’s Work Is Linked to Their Family Status
…benefits for millions of working-class Americans. The move away from manufacturing had a significant impact on America’s working class. Real wages of the median Americans with a high school diploma…
April 25, 2025
What’s holding women back from starting a family?
…The median age at first marriage for American women is now 28.6. What’s more: a record share of young women, about one-third, are projected to never marry. Cooper told the crowd at UVA…
April 25, 2025
A baby bonus is the wrong response to declining fertility
…of around $69,000 in the median state. No family receives the maximum additional amount on behalf of their children for each program in every year, but the point is that…
March 17, 2025
How State Policymakers Can Save the Nuclear Family
…free school lunches and paid family leave that lend direct state support to the care of kids. Moreover, blue states’ commitment to higher education, an egalitarian family life and delayed…
March 17, 2025
Progressives Are Starting to Come Around on the Importance of Marriage and Fatherhood
…he’s seen the data indicating males are in trouble. “On every single indicator we care about,” Moore said to the Washingtonian, “young men and boys are falling off.” Until very recently,…
March 11, 2025
The American Dream in Ohio depends on stronger Buckeye families
The “American dream” is a “better, richer and happier life for all our citizens of every rank,” wrote the historian James Truslow Adams over a century ago. Yet with ordinary Americans succumbing to “deaths…
February 25, 2025
Ohio Ranks Only 29th In The Family Structure Index
Ohio ranks 29th in family strength, according to a new report from the Institute for Family Studies and the Center for Christian Virtue. The Hope and a Future report spotlights the state of Ohio…