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June 20, 2025

What Kids Need—and Adults Need to Know—to Combat the Youth Mental Health Crisis

…30%. If current trends continue, half of Americans will not have a religion by 2070. As scholar Michelle Shain notes, religion is “a powerful predictor of mental health for millennial…

June 16, 2025

Better Boys: The Difference Good Dads Make

…boys from academic failure, as well as trouble in and outside of school. To remedy this, we convened an ideologically diverse group of scholars to research the state of fatherhood…

June 16, 2025

The ‘Father Divide’ and What it Means for Our Kids

…The Importance of Fatherhood in Virginia” was released this week from a diverse group of researchers, including scholars from the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, the National…

June 13, 2025

Good Fathers, Flourishing Kids: The Importance of Fatherhood in Virginia

…new report from an intellectually diverse group of scholars at the University of Virginia, the American Enterprise Institute, the American Institute for Boys and Men, the Brookings Institution, the National…

April 25, 2025

What’s holding women back from starting a family?

…rates of depression, and higher rates of personal meaning and satisfaction (despite also reporting higher stress levels), according to family scholars Wendy Wang and Yifeng Wan, who presented their recent…

April 3, 2025

Trump’s Tariffs Are a Historic Tax Hike

…and egregious assault on our constitutional system of government. In the Constitution, it is Congress’s role to raise revenue, not the president’s. I am an economist, not a constitutional scholar….

March 21, 2025

Increasing Financial Aid Isn’t the Solution to High College Costs

…college student received an annual financial aid package worth $1,700 (in today’s dollars) from sources outside their institution, including the federal government, states, and private scholarships. By 2019-20, however, the…

March 17, 2025

How State Policymakers Can Save the Nuclear Family

…Naomi Cahn and June Carbone argue that blue states have the liberal values and policies they believe make for strong and stable families.  Scholars like them point to universal pre-K,…

March 17, 2025

Progressives Are Starting to Come Around on the Importance of Marriage and Fatherhood

scholar, he did not connect the dots between the crisis in American masculinity and the distance too many boys and men have from married family life. In fact, he argued that we…

March 13, 2025

Trends in Net College Tuition and Financial Aid, 1990–2020

…the amount of tuition and required fees that students pay out of their own wallets, after all grants and scholarships are applied. By contrast, institutions’ net tuition is the amount of tuition…