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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
…Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers and Silents—and What They Mean for America’s Future, 2nd edition (Atria Books, 2025). 2 Jennifer Glass, Robin W. Simon, & Matthew A. Andersson, “Parenthood…
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
…in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the divorce rate has been falling in recent decades. In fact, the divorce rate has hit a 50-year-low. Since the 1980s, each cohort of married…
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…
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…