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Op-Ed
Are conservative women embracing the ‘Supermom’ ideal?
…Brad Wilcox is director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, senior fellow of the Institute for Family Studies and a Deseret News contributor. Ken Burchfiel is…
Book
Doing Right by Kids: Leveraging Social Capital and Innovation to Increase Opportunity
…in American K–12 Education,” MICHAEL Q. MCSHANE Chapter 3: “Educational Pathways to Economic Opportunity,” BETH AKERS AND PRESTON COOPER Chapter 4: “Reviving Marriage to Promote Upward Mobility,” BRAD WILCOX AND…
Commentary
The Good and Bad News About Boys and Men in Utah
Utah is doing exceptionally well on most metrics. The state is booming population-wise, with an almost 7 percent increase in population since 2018. Unemployment remains below the national average and the Beehive State’s economy…
Report
The Mainline Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Social Capitalism
…and areas with many mainliners the best. Sociologists have observed these trends in prior work, including our colleague, W. Bradford Wilcox. Wilcox argues that mainline adherents tend to “talk left…
op-Ed
The Changing Face of Social Breakdown
Last month, two of my colleagues at the American Enterprise Institute (Brad Wilcox and Lyman Stone), along with co-authors from the Wheatley Foundation and the Institute for Family Studies, published…