EducationCommentary
How Family Structure Leads to Academic Success
In 1965, the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan wrote: “The role of the family in shaping character and ability is so pervasive as to be easily… Read More
SocietyCommentary
The New York Times’ Weird Attack on JD Vance
Once again, corporate media is painting a conservative lawmaker’s mainstream views as out-of-touch and bizarre. In 2017, JD Vance, then known for authoring his memoir… Read More
SocietyNews
Number of Children Living With 2 Parents Increasing, Data Shows
Newly published data from the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that the proportion of American children living in two-parent families increased to 71.1% in 2023, continuing… Read More
Time to Accept the End of Marriage?
“Is it time to embrace the end of marriage and embrace some new ideas about romance and family? …Does culture have it right or is… Read More
Why We Should Say “Yes” to a Culture of Marriage
A Slate article this week suggests that because working-class men have more trouble today finding steady employment, women find it difficult to see them as… Read More
SocietyNews
New Report: Majority of U.S. Teens Don’t Live in Intact Families
The Index of Belonging and Rejection released this week from the Family Research Council (FRC) reveals a dismaying statistic about the state of American families:… Read More
Income Mobility Tied to Marriage
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
Dreaming of Equality of Opportunity, Not Outcome
In the United States, dreams have a funny way of becoming reality. That’s what makes the American dream so powerful. It’s renewed, and usually achieved,… Read More
Family Fact of the Week: Teens Are Putting Off Sexual Activity
A recent report by the Guttmacher Institute reveals that more teens are choosing to delay sexual activity. The median age for first sexual intercourse is… Read More
What Miss Utah Should Have Said
Miss Utah made headlines and lit up Twitter feeds with her infamous answer at the Miss USA Pageant. The judge asked Miss Utah, Marissa Powell,… Read More
Family Fact: Fatherlessness in America
Sixty percent of kids in Richmond, Virginia, are without a dad in the home, reports First Things First of Greater Richmond. First Things First works… Read More
Breadwinner Mothers: The Rest of the Story
A new Pew Research survey reveals that “[a] record 40% of all households with children under the age of 18 include mothers who are either… Read More
Morning Bell: Busting 5 Myths About the Minimum Wage
When someone says “minimum wage,” what comes to mind? Do you think of teenagers flipping burgers? Or a single parent trying to feed several kids?… Read More
Family Fact of the Week: Celebrate Marriage’s Many Benefits This Valentine’s Day
Married couples across the country will commemorate St. Valentine’s Day today by exchanging cards and flowers and raising a glass to love. But marriage also… Read More
Is Marriage the Key to Prosperity?
What’s the number one antidote to child poverty in America? Marriage. The truth is that children born to married-parent families are 82 percent less likely… Read More
Marriage: The Greatest Weapon Against Child Poverty
The collapse of marriage, along with a dramatic rise in births to single women, is the most important cause of childhood poverty—but government policy doesn’t… Read More
Family Fact of the Week: One in Four Babies Born to Cohabiting Women
The percentage of babies born to cohabiting women has jumped substantially in the last 10 years, according to new data from the National Center for… Read More
SocietyNews
Family Fact of the Week: The Dad Divide in Children’s Welfare
A recent New York Times article about the growing marriage and class divide in America featured two middle-class families in Ann Arbor, Michigan. At the… Read More
News
Family Fact of the Week: Mothers’ Religious Involvement Bolsters Children’s Well-Being
A new study in the Journal of Marriage and Family examines how single mothers’ religious participation may influence their young children’s behavioral outcomes. Using a… Read More
News
Family Fact of the Week: Marriage Protects Women and Children from Violence
New government data (PDF) reveals a continuing trend of declining marriage rates. More women have never been married, and cohabitation rates have increased steadily. And… Read More
Family Fact of the Week: Majority of Births to Women Under 30 Are to Single Moms
Unwed childbearing has been on the rise for more than five decades, and today more than 40 percent of U.S. children are born to single… Read More
Marriage in Middle America: Fair to Middling—and Struggling
A recent New York Times article points out that divorce rates—once highest in metropolitan, big city areas—are now creeping upward in Middle America: Forty years… Read More
New Survey on Abstinence and Sexual Activity: The Good News and the Bad News
On Thursday, The Washington Post heralded the findings of a new survey reporting on sexual activity in the United States. While the study pronounced such… Read More
The Poverty Solution: Marriage or Bust
Last week, new data from the U.S. Census Bureau revealed that the U.S. just saw the largest annual increase in poverty recorded in our nation’s… Read More
Poverty Explodes, Root Cause Is the Collapse of Marriage
New data released today by the U.S. Census Bureau show the largest increase in poverty in U.S. recorded history. Under President Obama’s watch, an additional… Read More
Marriage, Happiness, and a Prayer of a Chance at Escaping Poverty
With the recently released numbers regarding poverty levels in America, public concern is heightened, in particular, regarding the plight of America’s impoverished children. This concern… Read More
