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The public reviews and discussions of Samuel Perry’s new book, Addicted to Lust: Pornography in the Lives of Conservative Protestants, could leave you thinking that conservative Protestant relationships are being ruined by a scourge of misplaced...

It is a strange aspect of the United Kingdom’s tax system that marriage and family responsibility are not taken into account when it comes to income taxes. When people marry, they are committing to becoming a family unit, to love and support one...

In her May 2019 Atlantic article, “Why So Many Women Choose Abortion Over Adoption,” Olga Khazan paints a bleak picture of social attitudes towards adoption. The piece is a thorough and helpful overview of the recent data and thinking surrounding...

My Father Left Me Ireland highlights the universal nature of father loss and longing and how deeply our relationship with our father is tied to our identity—regardless of race, class, nationality, or gender. Dougherty’s eventual reconciliation with...

Is there a place for the pro-family movement in contemporary politics? Beginning in the 1980s, the movement made great inroads in American politics as the public became increasingly concerned with family breakdown and destructive societal pressures....

Given the changing character and contours of American family life,1 one might think that we have moved into a new era where fathers are no longer important. However, while children can and do thrive without their fathers, the data is unequivocal:...

You’ve probably heard a lot of complaints about dads over the past few years. We fathers are not pulling our weight around the house. Poor Mom is stuck working a “second shift,” doing more than her share of household chores even after a full day at...

As Father’s Day approaches, it seems fitting to address a few false and damaging myths about fathers and childcare. Many of these myths were promoted in Darcy Lockman’s book, All the Rage: Mothers, fathers & the myth of equal partnership, released...

Presidential candidate and New York senator, Kirsten Gillibrand (D) recently announced a Family Bill of Rights, a 21st- century list of rights related to pregnancy and raising a young family. In a field as crowded as the Democrats’ 2020 primary,...

In 2011, a Wall Street banker became curious about the lives of people unlike him. So he began walking into parts of New York City that people told him to avoid because “nobody goes there for anything other than drugs and prostitutes.” There, he...

More women are family breadwinners today. New data from the American Community Survey suggest that among married, heterosexual couples in the U.S., a quarter of wives, or about 15 million, are the primary breadwinners in their family. In 1960, the...

America is gripped by grievance. Factions defined by race, class, gender, and sexual orientation compete for victimization status. Nowhere is this more evident than in college-admissions processes, already perceived as rigged in favor of the...

Charlie and Marty Coe recently celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in front of a joyful crowd of family and friends, but things weren’t always so good in their marriage. Although they were very much in love in the beginning, by the time they...

There is a “J-Curve” in relationship quality for women. As we noted in The New York Times:  When it comes to relationship quality, there is a J-curve in women’s marital happiness, with women on the left and the right enjoying higher quality...

For a long time, the prevailing assumption in the social sciences has been that married people, husbands and wives alike, are happier than their unmarried peers. Nearly 25 years ago, sociologist Linda Waite made this point in her presidential...