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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 23, 2025
In Case of Emergency, Open Block Grant: Part 1
…including work requirements and time limits. Beyond that, the block grant’s financing structure gave states broad flexibility to allocate funds as they saw fit, so long as the spending supported…
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…
March 12, 2025
Why Alabama Needs The Success Sequence
…have markedly higher odds of realizing the American Dream: get at least a high school education work full time marry before having children A stunning 97% of young adults who…
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…
February 25, 2025
We Replaced Families with Uncle Sam. DOGE Must Make the Right Choices When Cutting
…rate. More broadly, what we see is that children in single-mother families are four times more likely to be poor in Ohio than children in married families. For DOGE, and…
February 25, 2025
Ohio Ranks Only 29th In The Family Structure Index
…be more family friendly. Given the importance of full-time work and regular schedules for parents, businesses should aim to transition more of their employees onto a regular, full-time schedule. Baby…
February 21, 2025
Hope And A Future: Forging Strong And Stable Families In Ohio, 2025
…Virtue (CCV) and the Institute for Family Studies (IFS). The index, which is based on trends in marriage, family stability, and fertility and is introduced for the first time in…