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December 11, 2023

How to make smartphones and apps safer for kids

…a movement that would follow across the 50 states.  Michael Toscano is executive director of the Institute for Family Studies. Brad Wilcox is the Future of Freedom Fellow at the…

October 27, 2023

What liberals don’t understand about men and marriage

…of men who end up becoming fathers and forging day-in-day-out relationships with their children. Brad Wilcox, a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and director of the National…

September 18, 2023

No Culture Wars, Please, We’re Academics

…Glenn Loury to Brad Wilcox, it’s hard to think of a serious book about the problems of income and racial inequality in America that hasn’t wrestled with the decline of…

August 17, 2023

The ‘Utah Family Miracle’ and Why It Matters

…and Robert Lerman at the Urban Institute, as well as Brad Wilcox at the University of Virginia, indicates, for instance, that one of the top predictors of economic performance across…

July 21, 2023

Can Spain Defuse Its Depopulation Bomb?

Over the past 40 years, no party has dominated the Spanish political landscape like the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party, or PSOE, now headed by Pedro Sánchez. Yet frustration over its…

June 30, 2023

House Republican Plan Penalizes Marriage

We just got more bad news about marriage. A record-high 25% of 40-year-olds in the United States were never married in 2021, according to sobering new statistics from the Pew Research Center. That statistic compares to…

June 16, 2023

Marriage Is Still the Best Way to Bond a Father to His Children

…Institute on April 25, 2023. The event, which was moderated by IFS senior fellow Brad Wilcox, featured a discussion between Richard Reeves and Ian Rowe on the question: “Does strengthening fatherhood depend upon…

June 11, 2023

Now Political Polarization Comes for Marriage Prospects

Marriage rates in America are falling fast: Many men and women are marrying later, and more and more people are never marrying at all. Marriage is in retreat for a host of reasons, but…