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June 20, 2025
What Kids Need—and Adults Need to Know—to Combat the Youth Mental Health Crisis
…no doubt that having fewer screens and fewer hours of screen time will help students stay on task. But early indications show the bans haven’t really moved the needle on…
June 16, 2025
Better Boys: The Difference Good Dads Make
…of fathers and future fathers by making schools more boy-friendly: adding male teachers in schools, expanding recess time, and recalibrating school curricula to be more boy-friendly. Secondly, by launching PSA campaigns spotlighting the valuable…
June 16, 2025
The ‘Father Divide’ and What it Means for Our Kids
…house (usually meaning they are married) experience dramatically better outcomes than any other arrangement. Dads who live at home spend 10 times as much time with their kids as dads who live…
May 13, 2025
Out of Work and On the Dole — Is Uncle Sam Contributing to Young Men’s Malaise?
…non-intact family.” He added, “In fact, these young men are 36% less likely to hold down a full-time job by the time they hit their mid-twenties.” When it comes to…
April 30, 2025
Is The Collapse of Blue-Collar Marriage a Foregone Conclusion?
It’s been just over 40 years since Springsteen’s bestselling Born in the USA came out in 1984 — an album with “a rowdy indomitable spirit,” as Debby Miller wrote in Rolling Stone at the time. The…
April 25, 2025
What’s holding women back from starting a family?
…still find it so convincing? Why are young women reluctant to marry? New York Times opinion columnist Michelle Goldberg argued at the evening panel that women aren’t eschewing marriage because…
April 25, 2025
A baby bonus is the wrong response to declining fertility
…their federal income tax withholding. It is worth noting that the generosity of federal benefits for children has increased substantially since 2007, over the same timeframe that the fertility rate…
April 15, 2025
Utah Hands Parents the Keys to the App Store
…discovered something chilling. Despite their best efforts to set up parental controls and screen time limits, their son had been relentlessly fed pro-suicide content by TikTok. The “safety features” they…
March 17, 2025
Progressives Are Starting to Come Around on the Importance of Marriage and Fatherhood
…clearly dissatisfied with the male status quo has forced some otherwise progressive thinkers to admit something’s changing. Recently on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” former Congressman Tim Ryan, a Democrat…
February 27, 2025
The GOP Is Still the Pro-Marriage Party
…in prison or jail than graduate from college if they grow up apart from their own married parents. By contrast, young men raised by married parents are four times more…