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November 21, 2025
Hungary’s Fertility Outcomes Highlight Pro-Natal Policy Limitations
…with parenthood occupying a diminished role” is to blame for widespread fertility declines, rather than changes in income or prices. If this is the case, policymakers should take a more…
September 3, 2025
The Shifting Composition Of SNAP Households
…ago, when the majority of SNAP households included children. This trend has important implications for the future of SNAP that federal policymakers should consider. Highlights SNAP has grown substantially in…
June 16, 2025
Better Boys: The Difference Good Dads Make
…the odds they end up in the principal’s office. They also suggest that policymakers — including leaders such as Govs. Glenn Youngkin and Wes Moore in states such as Virginia and Maryland who have…
April 15, 2025
Utah Hands Parents the Keys to the App Store
…trusted turned out to be little more than window dressing. Stories like this are heartbreaking, and all too common. As parents and policymakers, we can’t stand by while a digital…
March 17, 2025
How State Policymakers Can Save the Nuclear Family
…falling prospects of family life across the country, state policymakers need to take three steps. First, they should promote marriage (one of the biggest predictors of family formation) in public…
March 11, 2025
The American Dream in Ohio depends on stronger Buckeye families
…The challenge, then, facing Ohio leaders is to take steps to strengthen marriage and family life across the state. Policymakers should ask public schools to teach the Success Sequence(which underlines the…
February 18, 2025
Family-Friendly Policies for the 119th Congress
…marriage penalties are three specific areas of interest to lawmakers who want to make America more family friendly. Read the PDF. Introduction America is in a baby bust, with birth…
January 10, 2025
Marriage: America’s Keystone Institution
…than ever for the well-being of children and adults, at least on some outcomes. Scholars, journalists, professionals, and policymakers should not only take note of marriage’s rising value, but they…
January 7, 2025
Tax Policy Should Prioritize Shoring Up the Family
…have kids and rely on a sole breadwinner were thwarted by objections that a child allowance would also promote single-parent families in which no one worked. Policymakers seeking to use…
August 15, 2024
Women Want More Children Than They’re Having. America Can Do More to Help
…hedonistic reasons. In explaining why she is childless, Beth Davis, a marketing professional, told The Wall Street Journal that she and her husband “have more time and energy to commit to ourselves,”…