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February 21, 2025
Hope And A Future: Forging Strong And Stable Families In Ohio, 2025
What is the American dream? It is a “better, richer, and happier life for all our citizens of every rank,” in the words of James Truslow Adams, the historian who…
January 14, 2025
The Pornography Industry Should Not Be Allowed This Much Access to Our Children
…of Sociology at the University of Virginia, Brian J. Willoughby is a Professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University and a Fellow of the Wheatley Institute,…
October 30, 2024
The Geography of Fertility — Where are the Babies?
…care of kids. Moreover, blue states’ commitment to higher education, an egalitarian family life and delayed family formation is also a plus in Cahn and Carbone’s book as they believe…
July 29, 2024
The Rise of ‘Marriage Deserts’ and What We Can Do About Them
…secure Americans are married. Churchgoers, Asian families, college graduates and Republican voters each enjoy the benefits of a stable, married family. Here there are abundant networks of role models for…
May 6, 2024
How States and Communities Can Strengthen Marriages
Family is the greatest source of social capital, providing the setting in which people grow, develop, and anchor their lives. Stable and healthy marriages are at the foundation of strong…
April 23, 2024
Awkward Truth: Subsidizing Women’s Work Drives Down Birthrates
…popular in Europe and the U.S. for the first 20 years of this century: If we support women working, then they will have more children. A headline in the Guardian declared: “France’s…
April 18, 2024
Back from the brink: The intellectual tide is turning on marriage and civil society
…often have discounted the importance of the nation’s houses of worship. One recent New Yorker article, for instance, suggested faith left Christian men tortured by “guilt and shame that makes…
March 4, 2024
The state of the union isn’t strong because of the state of our unions
…of happiness,” poll after poll is telling us that millions of Americans are failing at this most important Jeffersonian pursuit, with happiness hitting “record lows” in recent years, according to…
February 15, 2024
Sacred Sex
…impression that all because of an archaic Christian sexual ethic that forbids pornography, Christian men and communities are rife with “depression,” “unhappiness,” and disrupted marriages. The New Yorker mocked the books, small…