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June 16, 2025

Better Boys: The Difference Good Dads Make

…launch fatherhood initiatives across America. Following in the footsteps of bipartisan initiatives in Florida and Tennessee, state leaders across the country should work to maximize the odds that all children…

March 11, 2025

The American Dream in Ohio depends on stronger Buckeye families

…economic mobility — not to mention minimizing deaths of despairand maximizing happiness for ordinary men and women. That’s because the Buckeye State is below the national average when it comes to family stability….

January 7, 2025

Tax Policy Should Prioritize Shoring Up the Family

…one child each would each receive a maximum of around $4,300 in 2025, but if they married they would both qualify for a maximum of over $7,100 (using the schedule for two…

August 15, 2024

Women Want More Children Than They’re Having. America Can Do More to Help

…of us. Making America more supportive of marriage and motherhood could not be more important if we aim to maximize the odds — for women who are open to having…

June 18, 2024

Donald Trump is an Outlier on the Right: When It Comes to Fidelity and Marriage, Democrats Face Bigger Problems

…sex and gender, Democrats have been more likely to support this new relationship fad. It helps, too, that polyamory is advertised as maximizing personal choice and sexual fulfillment, two core…

May 13, 2024

Do Mothers Have “Societal Support”? Does It Count if It Comes from Neighbors?

…here’s a fact about Israel that’s probably worth more than any pro-family government benefit in Sweden: About 70 percent of Israeli parents get help from grandma or grandpa in caring…

April 23, 2024

Awkward Truth: Subsidizing Women’s Work Drives Down Birthrates

…minister of state for universities and science. New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg argued that “in countries that support working mothers, like Sweden, Denmark, Norway and France, birthrates are basically fine.”…

March 4, 2024

As the family goes, so goes the state. Utah gets this

…state has a pioneering record when it comes to maximizing the odds that poor kids make it in America and that its citizenry is happy. And the research tells us that the fact…

December 1, 2023

Red States Can Lead the Way on Marriage and Fatherhood

…encouraging all dads — resident and nonresident — to do a good job with their kids while also promoting the institution that maximizes the odds that men will live with…

August 24, 2023

Baby Boom Or Bust

…we simply just trace this to the first mitzvah in the Garden of Eden, there’s a lot more going on here than religious teaching.  “There is an element of contagiousness,”…