Search Publications
Search through our comprehensive archive of publications on marriage, family, and civil society
Found 12 results by Amber Lapp
Thrift is the Way to Wealth
A new booklet, The Way to Wealth, that I co-authored says there is good news: while there are certainly things outside of our control, there are also many time-tested things that you can do to begin moving forward on the way to wealth... The booklet also takes on some common objections. For instance...
The Way to Wealth
Casino Land
But for my neighbors on the porch, none of whom went to college and some of whom dropped out of high school, gambling is normal. According to a recently released report by the Council on Casinos (an independent group of scholars and public policy leaders convened by the Institute for American Values...
Looking for Marriage in Middle America
A Choice Between Feeding Your Children or Getting Married
Removing marriage penalties for low-income Americans is one step toward rebuilding our middle class. Another is removing the savings penalties that also plague our welfare system. And a third, as President Obama is urging, is raising the minimum wage. With these and similar steps, we can once again ...
Doomsday
And “something” will probably happen, because anything can happen, and you should always expect the worse. That’s a common motto of those who have suffered family breakdowns and relationship breakups. And it sometimes seems to affect their entire worldview. Because even if the world h...
Married in a Single Society: The Power of Marriage as Models of Strength
In her essay “‘There but for the Grace’: The Ethics of Bystanders to Divorce,” scholar M. Christian Green reflects on how divorce affects not only divorcées, but everyone else, too. But in my experience, the inverse is also true. Good marriages have a way of sharing some of t...
A New Normal for the American Family: Kids Outside of Marriage
In our own research, while we heard many working–class young adults express reservations about marriage — emphasizing the importance of not “rushing” into marriage, but seeing no problem with having kids in the meantime — they are determined to give their children what so ma...
Why Thrift Matters: 20 Propositions
The Mating/Marriage Dance : Is the Prolonged Search for a Mate by Young College Graduates a Problem for American Society?
A Conversation with Kay S. Hymowitz, Author of Manning Up: How the Rise of Women Has Turned Men into Boys, and Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Author of Why There Are No Good Men Left: The Romantic Plight of Single Women, hosted by Amber Lapp, Co-Investigator, "Love and Marriage in Middle America," an IAV ...
Love in Middle America: "It's Complicated"
A renewed society–wide resolve to strengthen marriage is not a matter of patricians “imposing” their love of marriage on others who are resistant to marriage–it’s about helping those Americans who arguably value family the most realize their dreams of raising a flourishing, ...
Love in Middle America: "It's Complicated"
A renewed society–wide resolve to strengthen marriage is not a matter of patricians “imposing” their love of marriage on others who are resistant to marriage–it’s about helping those Americans who arguably value family the most realize their dreams of raising a flourishing, ...