SocietyCommentary
Giving Thanks for Opportunities Afforded by the Family
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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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
