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June 16, 2025
The ‘Father Divide’ and What it Means for Our Kids
…matter less to dads than to moms, a new report on the impact fathers have on their kids suggests we shouldn’t underestimate how much dads matter. “Good Fathers, Flourishing Kids:…
May 23, 2025
How AI Will Harm Working-Class Families
…matters more for marriage than “her” work. One Harvard study, for instance, showed that a couple’s risk of divorce shot up 33 percent if the husband was unemployed, but rose not…
April 24, 2025
Musk’s High-Tech Polygamy Is a Dead End
…there’s no humanity, and all the policies in the world don’t matter.” In this way, he spotlighted his commitment to the pronatalist cause—the idea that society must do more to…
March 17, 2025
Progressives Are Starting to Come Around on the Importance of Marriage and Fatherhood
…in life, and they have difficulty finding a mate and forming a family, too. And so the cycle turns. The economic struggles of boys and men become entrenched across generations.”…
March 12, 2025
Why Alabama Needs The Success Sequence
…family stability (the share of teens raised in an intact family). This matters because states with higher levels of stability have better outcomes for children, such as higher educational attainment and…
March 11, 2025
The American Dream in Ohio depends on stronger Buckeye families
…below-average standing matters because strong, stable families are a powerful predictor of upward mobility. Harvard economist Raj Chetty and his colleagues at Opportunity Insights have underscored the connection between upward…
February 27, 2025
The GOP Is Still the Pro-Marriage Party
…to educate the new arrivals to the party how much marriage still matters. Strong marriages benefit Republicans. More importantly, they benefit all Americans. In fact, because marriage has lost ground…
February 25, 2025
We Replaced Families with Uncle Sam. DOGE Must Make the Right Choices When Cutting
…own approach to family formation, he doesn’t seem to appreciate how much marriage matters for our kids and our country. In order to protect these children from poverty and…
February 21, 2025
Hope And A Future: Forging Strong And Stable Families In Ohio, 2025
…this report, indicates that the state falls below average on key indicators of family strength. Ohio’s below-average standing on the Family Structure Index matters because this report will show how…
February 18, 2025
Why So Blue: Liberal Women Are Less Happy, More Lonely. But Why?
…most thoughtful interpreters—like Jonathan Haidt, Jean Twenge, and Matthew Yglesias—of this ideological divide in the emotional well-being of young women have pointed to the role that “catastrophizing” thinking has played…