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Love and Marriage: The Secret to a Lasting Relationship
This is National Marriage Week, and it is fitting that the week ends with Valentine’s Day. After all, commitment of marriage vows provides the foundation… Read More
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This is National Marriage Week, and it is fitting that the week ends with Valentine’s Day. After all, commitment of marriage vows provides the foundation… Read More
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In January, friends and family in the Washington, D.C., area said a final goodbye to community champion Rita Jackson, but her indomitable spirit and the… Read More
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As ads for holiday gifts proliferate on the Internet, the airways, and newspapers, the saga of one surprising present—the gift of “no”—captivated participants at The… Read More
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While the nation’s attention focuses on a day of thanksgiving, there are some who embrace each day with gratitude for a second chance at life… Read More
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Jack Kemp arrived on the national political scene at a time when America was sinking economically and its spirits were fading. Against that backdrop, Kemp’s… Read More
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The Census Bureau’s most recent poverty data was released last week. Predictably, vast expenditures on anti-poverty programs have not budged the numbers: more than 45… Read More
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The panel of presenters at a recent anti-poverty summit, hosted by Bob Woodson’s Center for Neighborhood Enterprise, did not fit the image of typical Washington… Read More
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As newspapers bulge with advertisements for Father’s Day gifts, it’s a good time to reflect on the long-term and irreplaceable value that dads add to their… Read More
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When mere material assistance has failed, relationships can be transformational. That’s the message of a video series recently released by the Center for Neighborhood Enterprise,… Read More
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In his State of the Union address, President Obama talked about how to deal with what he frames as unjust income disparity in our nation…. Read More
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As Thanksgiving approaches, one iconic image comes to mind: Norman Rockwell’s painting of a family gathering for that holiday feast. The title of that work,… Read More
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A recent Heritage Foundation forum highlighting the relationship between marriage, family structure, and societal well-being noted positive cultural trends as well as troubling data. Discussing… Read More
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A recent Gallup poll found that, in America, nearly two out of three respondents do not consider themselves to be “thriving” or “strong” with regard… Read More
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A recent report from the Harvard Graduate School of Education revealed that the overwhelming majority (80 percent) of 10,000 high school and middle school youths… Read More
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On Memorial Day weekend, our nation lost a courageous community leader, Bertha Gilkey, who succumbed to cancer on May 25. For decades, Bertha had been… Read More
Capturing the powerful impact of a mother on her children’s lives with his quintessential brevity and pith, Abraham Lincoln once declared, “All that I am,… Read More
The vernal equinox may have inspired Shakespeare to declare “the spring time, the only pretty ring time.” Fittingly, it was chosen as the date for… Read More
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A report recently released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that volunteerism in America is at a 10-year low. This decline in civic engagement… Read More
This Valentine’s Day Time magazine describes young adults’ new craze over a dating app called Tinder. The app lets users slide through hundreds of profiles… Read More
Recent research from the Equality of Opportunity Project found that “the strongest predictors of upward mobility are measures of family structure such as the fraction… Read More
In a widely publicized interview with President Obama, Bill O’Reilly led his questions with the topic of the nation’s rate of births outside marriage, which… Read More
Discussions about poverty and upward mobility tend to overlook a growing amount of research arguing that socioeconomic differences in America are often rooted in family… Read More
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Analysts at a recent forum on the downward trends in marriage and religion in the United States agree that the two are not isolated phenomena… Read More
In addition to a tsunami of glitches in online enrollment, Obamacare is designed with a payment structure that undercuts marriage and the family—two institutions that… Read More
Last week, the nation lost a true champion of civil society with the passing of Bob Coté. Thirty years ago, Coté launched Step 13, a… Read More
The number of people in poverty in America stagnated in 2012, according to a recent report by the U.S. Census Bureau. This comes as no… Read More
Since 1960, the number of cohabiting couples in our nation has skyrocketed from 450,000 to more than 7.5 million. As a motivation to move into… Read More
Rumblings are once again underway indicating movement on President Obama’s State of the Union proposal to “work with states to make high-quality preschool available to… Read More
As the days wane in late summer, so do parents’ bank accounts as they invest in school supplies for their children. In fact, reports show… Read More
In their new book Gender and Parenthood, Brad Wilcox and Kathleen Kovner Kline squarely face a current cultural trend that portrays the father as an… Read More
