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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 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 21, 2025
Hope And A Future: Forging Strong And Stable Families In Ohio, 2025
What is the American dream? It is a “better, richer, and happier life for all our citizens of every rank,” in the words of James Truslow Adams, the historian who…
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 17, 2024
The Blue State Family Exodus: Families Are Migrating to Red and Purple States
…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 11, 2024
Doing Right by Kids: A Book Event
…inequality, and the need to promote economically diverse neighborhoods through housing reform. The second panel discussed family policy and the safety net. AEI’s Brad Wilcox argued that marriage matters today…
December 15, 2023
Pro-Family Policy Priorities for States
Introduction America’s system of federalism means that the is- sues that most directly impact the lives of parents and families are often most appropriately dealt with at the state level….