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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,…

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…

November 27, 2023

For kids, marriage still matters

…by promoting the success sequence. Utah’s youth deserve to know this proven pathway to a better life. Brad Wilcox, a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and director…

September 18, 2023

No Culture Wars, Please, We’re Academics

…Glenn Loury to Brad Wilcox, it’s hard to think of a serious book about the problems of income and racial inequality in America that hasn’t wrestled with the decline of…