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May 30, 2023

Parenting While High

…help, but parents who repeatedly engage in this unsafe behavior will face no accountability. Substance abuse around children is dangerous. A recent paper by the journal Pediatrics found 731 poisoning-related fatalities for children ages…

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….

May 25, 2023

Education Freedom and Work Opportunities as Catalysts for Increasing the Birth Rate Among Married Couples

Summary Pursuing new, commonsense approaches to education reform and work–family policies, from childcare and early education through higher education and workforce flexibility, will foster the conditions for family flourishing and…

May 25, 2023

Education Freedom and Work Opportunities as Catalysts for Increasing the Birth Rate Among Married Couples

Summary Pursuing new, commonsense approaches to education reform and work–family policies, from childcare and early education through higher education and workforce flexibility, will foster the conditions for family flourishing and…

May 19, 2023

Guilty Until Proven Innocent: America Today

…notoriously got the idea of the American system of justice backwards, when she said in March that President Trump, in the Stormy Daniels hush-money case, would have a chance to…

May 10, 2023

AI Tutoring Has a Lot to Offer. But so Does Human Mentoring.

…Fisher and Daniel Fisher explore how schools can expand students’ access to relationships that might otherwise be out of reach, noting that students can now hear virtually from a range…

May 4, 2023

The Social Breakdown: The Poverty of Family, Community, and Religious Life in America

On May 4, AEI’s Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility (COSM) hosted the launch of “The Social Breakdown,” a new research series dedicated to the study of social capital. https://www.youtube.com/embed/SWmPhcul8NE…

May 3, 2023

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…

April 25, 2023

A Debate on Fatherhood

…of the National Marriage Project at UVA, W. Bradford Wilcox moderated the discussion between Reeves and Rowe that explores the question, “Does strengthening fatherhood depend on renewing marriage in America?”…

March 27, 2023

Here Are the Kinds of Jobs Chat AI Is Likeliest to Affect

…industries that are all, in their own ways, bespoke activities. Coming from a family of loggers, I’ll certify that cutting down trees is dangerous work that involves a lot of…