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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 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…

May 23, 2025

How AI Will Harm Working-Class Families

Donald Trump rose to power in large part by appealing to working-class men. He was able to channel their frustration with trade deals and automation that destroyed working-class jobs, helped fuel thousands of deaths of despair, and…

May 13, 2025

Out of Work and On the Dole — Is Uncle Sam Contributing to Young Men’s Malaise?

…Brad Wilcox wrote in his book “Get Married,” young men are “more likely to end up idle, to work less, and to earn less money if they came from a…

April 30, 2025

Is The Collapse of Blue-Collar Marriage a Foregone Conclusion?

…from the Institute for Family Studies by Brad Wilcox and Grant Martsolf of the University of Pittsburgh, a closer look at working-class men’s jobs, in both the public and private…

April 25, 2025

What’s holding women back from starting a family?

…Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Brad Wilcox is Distinguished University Professor and Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and senior nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise…