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December 11, 2025
Trump Family Policy Fails to Deliver at the One-Year Mark
…cannot access until 18 years later, would meaningfully change would-be parents’ calculus. At best, the benefit may move a small number of births forward in time so that children can…
November 21, 2025
Hungary’s Fertility Outcomes Highlight Pro-Natal Policy Limitations
…Hungary’s initial fertility bump? One possibility is that the initial fertility increase in Hungary was more of a timing effect, where would-be parents accelerated births in response to the benefit,…
September 3, 2025
The Shifting Composition Of SNAP Households
…time, from 25.8% in 2000 to 27.6% in 2023. While a shift toward childless and single-person households within SNAP would be expected given these broader population trends, SNAP participation among…
August 27, 2025
In Pursuit: Marriage, Motherhood, And Women’s Well-Being
Marriage and fertility rates have reached all-time lows in the U.S. in recent years, as fewer people marry or have children. These trends are likely to continue in the future….
August 4, 2025
Where Are the Pro-Family Senators?
…home, allowing all parents to keep more of their own money each time they grow their family would benefit allfamilies. And it would have sent a much better message. Instead, Senate…
June 20, 2025
What Kids Need—and Adults Need to Know—to Combat the Youth Mental Health Crisis
…no doubt that having fewer screens and fewer hours of screen time will help students stay on task. But early indications show the bans haven’t really moved the needle on…
June 16, 2025
Better Boys: The Difference Good Dads Make
…of fathers and future fathers by making schools more boy-friendly: adding male teachers in schools, expanding recess time, and recalibrating school curricula to be more boy-friendly. Secondly, by launching PSA campaigns spotlighting the valuable…
June 16, 2025
The ‘Father Divide’ and What it Means for Our Kids
…house (usually meaning they are married) experience dramatically better outcomes than any other arrangement. Dads who live at home spend 10 times as much time with their kids as dads who live…
May 13, 2025
Out of Work and On the Dole — Is Uncle Sam Contributing to Young Men’s Malaise?
…non-intact family.” He added, “In fact, these young men are 36% less likely to hold down a full-time job by the time they hit their mid-twenties.” When it comes to…
April 30, 2025
Is The Collapse of Blue-Collar Marriage a Foregone Conclusion?
It’s been just over 40 years since Springsteen’s bestselling Born in the USA came out in 1984 — an album with “a rowdy indomitable spirit,” as Debby Miller wrote in Rolling Stone at the time. The…