Skip to main content

Research Archive

Welcome to Our Research Archive

Search and filter by content type, issue area, author, and keyword

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 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…

January 14, 2025

Unprotected From Porn

wheatleyifs-unprotectedreport-jan2024Download…

January 14, 2025

The Pornography Industry Should Not Be Allowed This Much Access to Our Children

…Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, Brad Wilcox is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies, a Visiting Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, and University Professor…

October 1, 2024

For the Sake of the Kids: Strengthening Families in the Lone Star State

…The crisis of marriage and family formation involves both economic and complex cultural and social factors that a family-first policy agenda can help address. Read the full report below. 2024-09-CHF-Sake-of-the-Kids-WilcoxBrownZill_FINALDownload…

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…

June 18, 2024

Donald Trump is an Outlier on the Right: When It Comes to Fidelity and Marriage, Democrats Face Bigger Problems

…simply their problem, but—given that a large minority of young women now identify with the left—America’s problem as well.  Brad Wilcox, nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and director…