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June 13, 2024
Why Married Fathers Matter
…States. Meanwhile, young men are much more likely to be denizens of the basement or, even worse, prison or jail. What accounts for this male malaise? Education scholars Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Stephen…
May 1, 2024
The closing of the American heart
…down from more than 85% in the 1950s. Judging by scholarship by Melissa Kearney (2023), Paul Amato (2005), and Sara McLanahan and Isabel Sawhill (2015), there is no question that the concern I had was merited….
March 4, 2024
As the family goes, so goes the state. Utah gets this
…of what strong families contribute to society is reflected in Utah policymaking during the 2024 legislative session. For example, lawmakers enacted legislation — informed by scholarship from the Sutherland Institute and the…
December 13, 2023
Stronger Families, Safer Streets
…family. Drawing on the work of scholars like Harvard sociologist Robert Sampson—who found that “(f)amily structure is one of the strongest, if not the strongest, predictors of … urban violence…
October 27, 2023
What liberals don’t understand about men and marriage
…Marriage Project, is the Future of Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and a visiting scholar at the Sutherland Institute. He is the author of the forthcoming book…
August 17, 2023
The ‘Utah Family Miracle’ and Why It Matters
…Project, is the Future of Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and a visiting scholar at the Sutherland Institute. Patrick T. Brown is a fellow at the Ethics…
June 20, 2023
Down Through the Ages
…from older ones. Twenge is the rare scholar who seems to play it down the middle. Her book, which contains complete portraits of all six generations living today, is based…
June 11, 2023
Now Political Polarization Comes for Marriage Prospects
…stronger; scholars call such relationships, in which the two partners share important characteristics, “homogamous.” Homogamy matters for marriage when it predicts how a person thinks about their life goals, their ways…
May 26, 2023
The Power of the Success Sequence
Introduction The “Success Sequence,” a formula to help young adults succeed in America, has been discussed widely in recent years, including by Brookings Institution scholars Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill….
April 17, 2023
Data Tools 6: The Geography of Traditional Families in America
…structures turn out poorly. The question is which family structure works best. No serious scholar disputes the answer. The rankings of the alternative arrangements that involve only one birth parent…