Category: Marriage/Family

Cultural elites seem to be coming to their senses about the importance of family, faith and community

One of the big problems with most national household surveys is that they don’t tell us what people are really like.

Several studies over the last few years have shown that men are experiencing what’s become known...

This legislative season, eighteen states are working to create age verification legislation — laws that force pornography companies to verify online users’ age. Age restrictions for social media, however, have proven a much harder undertaking.

Brad Wilcox, a professor of sociology and the director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, discusses his fascinating new book, Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites.

Meet the Rapid Ethnographic Assessment of Programs (REAPS) for Fathers. It’s a process created by National Fatherhood Initiative® (NFI) that draws on an anthropological research method that’s particularly helpful when you have limited time and resources and need to act quickly.

How hard do we have to look for a silver lining to the birth dearth? For those who care about the share of children growing up with the “privilege” of a two-parent household, maybe not that far at all.

In the months leading up to my 40th birthday, contemplating this statement, I found myself overwhelmed by despair. I was single and childless, and couldn’t figure out how it had happened. I had scrupulously followed the life path set out for women of my generation. I had gone to university and excelled; I had spent time “finding myself” in foreign countries; I had launched a professional career and worked grueling hours to achieve success; I had paid off colossal student loans; I had moved to bigger, more cosmopolitan cities to pursue better opportunities; I had “worked on” myself. All the while, believing that the rest—marriage, children, a home life—would fall into place when the timing was right. When none of that materialized, I felt utterly adrift. 

Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming all share common borders and something else that matters more.

According to data the Census Bureau gathered in 2020, these were three of the four states that had the highest percentages of households headed by married couples of the opposite sex.

The share of Americans above age 65 is projected to grow in coming years, outpacing overall population growth by almost 20 percentage points by 2030. Some predict that a crisis in senior homelessness looms.

The guides recommend the reading of books that directly attack the Catholic view of women and the family.