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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 12, 2024

Surgeon general’s dour picture of parenthood misses the mark

…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

The Nanny State Is Not the Answer to Parents’ Challenges

…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

Women Want More Children Than They’re Having. America Can Do More to Help

…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…

July 29, 2024

The Rise of ‘Marriage Deserts’ and What We Can Do About Them

…are more likely to be found in some communities rather than in others. As one of us (Brad Wilcox) asked in his book, “Get Married”: “Why is it, for instance, that a…

June 13, 2024

Why Married Fathers Matter

…middle school graduation but taking a degree home from a place like Princeton rather than spending time in prison. Brad Wilcox is a professor and director of the National Marriage…

May 1, 2024

The closing of the American heart

…And not just for the sake of the children, but for the sake of the men and women across America. Brad Wilcox is a professor and director of the National…

March 8, 2024

Jason Kelce, Family Man

…the benefits of marriage and family. In other words, a good family man.   * * * Brad Wilcox is a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and…

March 4, 2024

As the family goes, so goes the state. Utah gets this

…of social capital and self-reported happiness. Brad Wilcox’s new book, “Get Married,” tells us that no group of men and women are as happy as married moms and dads in…

March 4, 2024

The state of the union isn’t strong because of the state of our unions

Thomas Jefferson, the nation’s third president, is justly famous for underlining the importance of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” for our new nation in the Declaration of Independence….