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April 30, 2025
Is The Collapse of Blue-Collar Marriage a Foregone Conclusion?
…ideas for how. Grant Martsolf, Brad Wilcox, “Good Jobs, Strong Families: How the Character of Men’s Work is Linked to Their Family Status,” Institute for Family Studies, April 2025 will…
April 25, 2025
What’s holding women back from starting a family?
…Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Brad Wilcox is Distinguished University Professor and Director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia and senior nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise…
April 24, 2025
Musk’s High-Tech Polygamy Is a Dead End
Elon Musk told a conference in Saudi Arabia last year that his listeners “should view the birthrate as the single biggest problem [we] need to solve. If you don’t make new humans,…
March 17, 2025
How State Policymakers Can Save the Nuclear Family
…suggest the blue state family model is perceived as more family unfriendly, today, to Americans interested in starting, growing or raising a family. Brad Wilcox is the Future of Freedom…
March 17, 2025
Progressives Are Starting to Come Around on the Importance of Marriage and Fatherhood
…be coming around on the importance of reviving this package deal. Brad Wilcox is the Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia and the author of “Get…
February 27, 2025
The GOP Is Still the Pro-Marriage Party
While Elon Musk was chainsawing at CPAC, his ex-girlfriend, the singer Grimes, pleaded with him to attend to their child’s medical crisis. This dustup followed a claim by the conservative influencer Ashley…
February 25, 2025
Ohio Ranks Only 29th In The Family Structure Index
…them forge stronger and more stable families. Brad Wilcox is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia, Future of Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies,…
February 18, 2025
Why So Blue: Liberal Women Are Less Happy, More Lonely. But Why?
…connection to America’s core institutions—family and faith. Grant Bailey is a Research Associate of the Institute for Family Studies. Brad Wilcox is a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Family Studies. …
February 6, 2025
The Trump Administration is Already Proving to be Family Friendly
The first Trump administration did not do a lot to advance the family policy ball. Sure, they doubled the Child Tax Credit to $2,000 in 2017. Otherwise, Trump 1.0 didn’t score many…
December 12, 2024
Which Men Cheat Least? Republican Husbands, Especially ‘Religious Wife Guys’
…wives than Democratic husbands. The issue is important because, as I (Wilcox) argued in Get Married, infidelity “exacts a serious toll on marital quality,” adding that it is “because, regardless of the…