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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…
February 27, 2025
The GOP Is Still the Pro-Marriage Party
While Elon Musk was chainsawing at CPAC, his ex-girlfriend, the singer Grimes, pleaded with him to attend to their child’s medical crisis. This dustup followed a claim by the conservative influencer Ashley…
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…
February 18, 2025
Why So Blue: Liberal Women Are Less Happy, More Lonely. But Why?
…connection to America’s core institutions—family and faith. Grant Bailey is a Research Associate of the Institute for Family Studies. Brad Wilcox is a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Family Studies. …
February 10, 2025
For Better: Four Proven Ways To A Strong And Stable Marriage
…and women, for instance, have about 10 times the assets as their single peers in their 50s, heading towards retirement, as Brad Wilcox notes in his book, Get Married: Why Americans…
February 6, 2025
The Trump Administration is Already Proving to be Family Friendly
The first Trump administration did not do a lot to advance the family policy ball. Sure, they doubled the Child Tax Credit to $2,000 in 2017. Otherwise, Trump 1.0 didn’t score many…
February 6, 2025
The 10th Annual American Family Survey: Opportunities and Obstacles to a Broad-Based Political Coalition for Families
…Rhoades of the Family Research Center, and AEI’s Brad Wilcox. Dr. Wilcox discussed the importance of growing government support for middle-class parents and families. Dr. Kearney discussed the need to…
January 10, 2025
Marriage: America’s Keystone Institution
Marriage is linked to better financial, social, and emotional outcomes for children, men, and women—and many of these effects appear to have a causal dimension. Many social scientists have discovered…