SocietyCommentary
Empathy Comes Firsthand for Director of This Maternity Home
I know what it’s like to be pregnant and homeless. It’s why I now devote my time to helping young women in similar situations. Shortly… Read More
SocietyCommentary
Sharing the Selfless Blessing of Life and Motherhood During National Adoption Month
Adoption is a beautiful decision that should always be celebrated, but especially in November, during National Adoption Month. From the first time I unexpectedly saw… 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
One Change That Would Actually Help Reduce Child Poverty
The Children’s Defense Fund recently declared war on child poverty—despite the fact that we’re already 50 years and $20 trillion into a War on Poverty… 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
Upward Mobility, Equality of Opportunity, and the Family
Discussions about poverty and upward mobility tend to overlook a growing amount of research arguing that socioeconomic differences in America are often rooted in family… Read More
Government Contractors Prosper, Hispanics Struggle in a Country Growing More Bifurcated
Sunday’s front page of The Washington Post carried two very different yet related stories about what is happening in our country. The fact they shared… Read More
SocietyNews
New Study on High School Graduation Rates, Gender, and Parental Marriage
Children living with married opposite-sex parents were more likely to graduate from high school than peers living with cohabiting, single, or same-sex parents, according to… Read More
More Single Moms Have Never Married
Forty-four percent of single mothers have never been married. This is 11 times the percent of never-married single mothers in 1960. The Pew Research Center… Read More
