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February 6, 2025
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
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…
January 14, 2025
…Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, Brad Wilcox is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and University Professor…
December 12, 2024
…wives than Democratic husbands. The issue is important because, as I (Wilcox) argued in Get Married, infidelity “exacts a serious toll on marital quality,” adding that it is “because, regardless of the…
December 2, 2024
…and cellphones in the coming year. What follows is an excerpt of our conversation, which has been edited for clarity and length. Brad Wilcox: I’ve been developing an index of family…
October 30, 2024
…to Americans interested in starting, growing or raising a family. Brad Wilcox (@BradWilcoxIFS on X) is the Future of Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and a nonresident…
September 17, 2024
…Brad Wilcox, Future of Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, is the author of Get Married: Why…
September 12, 2024
…the science, we’d say there are many such cases. Brad Wilcox (@BradWilcoxIFS), professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and senior fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, is…
September 9, 2024
…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
…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…