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September 29, 2023

How Well Is Rural America Doing? You’d Be Surprised

…found exploitative of the suffering and despair of poor whites principally as a way to generate capital for the author’s other interests. But fear not: Currid-Halkett is a serious scholar with genuine…

By Brent Orrell

September 21, 2023

The Two-Parent Advantage

…us that a stable, married family still gives children a leg up in life. I was thinking of surveys of family scholarship like this one from the Brookings-Princeton journal, Future of Children, reporting…

By W. Bradford Wilcox

September 20, 2023

Do Two Parents Matter More Than Ever?

…leaves everyone better off, including the children.”3 Meanwhile, some family scholars have speculated that “the consequences of divorce should become smaller when the divorce rates increase, because the higher these…

By W. Bradford Wilcox | Wendy Wang | Spencer James | Thomas Murray

September 18, 2023

West Virginia Budget Cuts Are a Taste of Higher Ed’s Future

…students (54% at WVU) hail from out of state. In addition, nearly a quarter of the students at WVU are eligible for Pell Grants, and many more are “Promise Scholars”…

By Naomi Schaefer Riley | James Piereson

September 18, 2023

A Degree of Risk

…scholarships — is already free.) When Biden took office, all were eagerly awaiting his move to cancel student debt. He didn’t move on that immediately, though. Biden announced his plan during…

By Beth Akers

September 17, 2023

Tracking ‘two-parent privilege’ in Utah

…Studies and a visiting scholar at the Sutherland Institute. David Bass is the director of communications for the Institute for Family Studies. Derek Monson is chief growth officer at Sutherland…

By W. Bradford Wilcox | David Bass | Derek Monson

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…

By W. Bradford Wilcox | Patrick T. Brown | Jenet Erickson

August 16, 2023

How to Strengthen the ‘Success Sequence’ in Utah

…sociology at the University of Virginia and director of the National Marriage Project, is the Future of Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and a visiting scholar at…

By W. Bradford Wilcox | Derek Monson | David Bass

July 3, 2023

Child Welfare’s Ideological Enforcer

…Social Work late last year. His demotion apparently has not made Dettlaff any less of an ideological enforcer in child-welfare scholarship. Most recently, he has attacked a re-analysis by several…

By Naomi Schaefer Riley

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…