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Remember how the nation’s official poverty rate fell to its lowest point on record during the pandemic? That’s over.

Look around the pages of our prestige publications and you will conclude that a revolution is afoot in which modern enlightened adults are crafting innovative new family structures.

“You cannot simply conjure stable marital partnerships on command because an economist tells you to.”

The deep pessimism behind the progressive view of marriage.

Progressives may scoff but data backs 'two parent' privilege

Melissa Kearney ’s new book, “The Two-Parent Privilege,” is an attempt to explain the importance of marriage to her fellow liberal intellectuals. Sadly, she…

By almost every metric, children growing up in households where their parents are married and live together do better

Melissa Kearney ’s new book, “The Two-Parent Privilege,” is an attempt to explain the importance of marriage to her fellow liberal intellectuals. Sadly, she…

The U.S. has the highest rate of single parenthood anywhere in the world. Some researchers say family structure is an underappreciated source of many of America's thorniest problems.

Melissa Kearney begins her new book, The Two-Parent Privilege with a scene from an academic conference she attended a few years ago. After days speaking with colleagues about declining U.S. employment and social mobility, the University of Maryland professor asked whether scholars should give more thought to the condition of families. Given their centrality to […]