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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…
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 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…
September 9, 2024
The Nanny State Is Not the Answer to Parents’ Challenges
…change,” the surgeon general writes. Too bad he has the wrong thing in mind. Naomi Schaefer Riley is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Brad Wilcox, a nonresident…
August 15, 2024
Women Want More Children Than They’re Having. America Can Do More to Help
…Institute for Family Studies. Brad Wilcox (@BradWilcoxIFS on X), a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, is the Future of Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies…