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September 3, 2025
The Shifting Composition Of SNAP Households
…as Brad Wilcox and his coauthors caution, the picture is not uniformly positive. Overall, marriage rates continue to decline, suggesting that while marriage as the preferred institution for raising children…
August 27, 2025
In Pursuit: Marriage, Motherhood, And Women’s Well-Being
…men are more likely than women to say they want to be parents someday,” Pew Research Center, February 15, 2024. 10 Brad Wilcox and Wendy Wang, “Who is happiest? Married mothers…
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.”…
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…
June 13, 2025
Good Fathers, Flourishing Kids: The Importance of Fatherhood in Virginia
Children in Virginia are more likely to flourish when their fathers are engaged and/or present. This is one of the conclusions from Good Fathers, Flourishing Kids: The Importance of Fatherhood in Virginia, a…
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…