Welcome to Our Research Archive
Search and filter by content type, issue area, author, and keyword
March 17, 2025
How State Policymakers Can Save the Nuclear Family
…suggest the blue state family model is perceived as more family unfriendly, today, to Americans interested in starting, growing or raising a family. Brad Wilcox is the Future of Freedom…
March 17, 2025
Progressives Are Starting to Come Around on the Importance of Marriage and Fatherhood
…be coming around on the importance of reviving this package deal. Brad Wilcox is the Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia and the author of “Get…
March 12, 2025
Why Alabama Needs The Success Sequence
…follow the Success Sequence escape poverty by their late 20s and early 30s, according to research by Wendy Wang and Brad Wilcox. Furthermore, 86% of young adults who follow all three…
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 27, 2025
The GOP Is Still the Pro-Marriage Party
While Elon Musk was chainsawing at CPAC, his ex-girlfriend, the singer Grimes, pleaded with him to attend to their child’s medical crisis. This dustup followed a claim by the conservative influencer Ashley…
February 25, 2025
We Replaced Families with Uncle Sam. DOGE Must Make the Right Choices When Cutting
…federal and state government far more efficient than even Musk’s wildest dreams. Brad Wilcox is Distinguished University Professor at the University of Virginia, senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute,…
February 25, 2025
Ohio Ranks Only 29th In The Family Structure Index
…them forge stronger and more stable families. Brad Wilcox is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, Future of Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies,…
February 18, 2025
Why So Blue: Liberal Women Are Less Happy, More Lonely. But Why?
…connection to America’s core institutions—family and faith. Grant Bailey is a Research Associate of the Institute for Family Studies. Brad Wilcox is a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Family Studies. …
February 6, 2025
The Trump Administration is Already Proving to be Family Friendly
The first Trump administration did not do a lot to advance the family policy ball. Sure, they doubled the Child Tax Credit to $2,000 in 2017. Otherwise, Trump 1.0 didn’t score many…
January 30, 2025
American Greatness Depends on Strong Families
President Trump signaled his commitment to making America “greater, stronger and far more exceptional than ever before” in his important Inaugural Address last week. Crucially, Trump made a personal commitment to fight…