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Second Chances : A Proposal to Reduce Unnecessary Divorce

One Parent or Five? : A Global Look at Today's New Intentional Families

Second Chances: A Proposal to Reduce Unnecessary Divorce

My Daddy's Name is Donor : A Pathbreaking New Study of Young Adults Conceived Through Sperm Donation

In the U.S., an estimated 30,000-60,000 children are born each year through sperm donation, but this number is only an educated guess. Neither the industry nor any other entity in the U.S. is required to report on these vital statistics. Most strikingly, there is almost no reliable evidence, in any ...

Can Government Strengthen Marriage? : Evidence from the Social Sciences

Public policy may help reduce rates of unmarried childbearing and divorce, and strategies exist that correspond to the best current evidence from the social sciences.

A Call for Family-Supportive Tax Reform

Marriage leaders express their urgent concern over the anti-marriage provisions of our nation's tax code.

Shouldn't We Help Parents Be Parents?

Everything we know about children tells us that we should encourage parents to spend more time with their children, not less. Could there possibly be a worse policy than taxing everyone, including millions of struggling at-home parents, to help relatively affluent families put their children in day ...

We Can't Help Kids by Destroying Families

In view of the high number of poor children removed to foster care from loving homes, the last message Washington should send to states is one that ultimately de-emphasizes the importance of family preservation efforts and pushes termination of parental rights. It is cruel enough that parents in str...

The Home Is No Place For A Singles Scene

The evidence suggests that family fragmentation undermines child well-being in six basic ways. First, by removing one parent from the home and multiplying outside pressures on the other, family disruption almost always results in a dramatic loss of parent-child contact time – by far the mo...

Of Families, Children, and a Parental Bill of Rights

Eight Propositions on Family and Child Well-Being

The Declining American Family : Taking A Reasoned Moral Position

All in the Family

I would like to suggest that today's serious family debate becomes coherent only when seen as the clash of two implicit world views. Moreover, because these governing outlooks do not fit our usual categories of "liberal" and "conservative," they remain largely invisible to the public, and poorly und...

All in the family?

Thus, the basic question must be redefined. It is not: How can we help people as individuals? Rather, it is: How can we strengthen families as families? How will our policies help or hinder the family unit as it goes about what might be called family business? To marry. To bring children into the wo...

<p>The Relationship of Public Policy to Family Well-Being</p>

It's almost as if we can palpably feel a kind of cultural yearning for stronger families and the need to pay attention to the status and future of the family unit We are very much concerned with leading economic indicators to measure the health of our economy, but I think that we are beginning to se...

Politicians should take a cue from Cosby

Any presidential aspirant seeking the "family vote" should begin with pro-family tax reform that offers targeted relief to families raising children. It could be done by raising the child exemption in the tax code to $5,000, up from $2,000 under current law. (Last year's tax reform raised the exempt...

Why Paid Parental Leave Makes Sense

Should companies be required by law to allow parents up to 18 weeks of unpaid leave to care for newly born or seriously ill children? As Congress prepares to vote on the Family and Medical Leave Act, opinion polls show that most Americans favor the idea. With a majority of mothers in the workforce, ...

Working Parents and The Work Place

The trends are clear. Support for the pro-family work place will continue to grow as a growing proportion of the work force consists of parents who require new flexibility in balancing the demands of working and parenting... Those employers who have introduced pro-family reforms have done so not des...

The Democrats Can Win on Family Issues

On the other hand, family issues could unite Democrats and highlight their best Ideas. The most hotly contested political constituency currently is the 22-40 year-old baby-boom generation, which now comprises nearly 40 percent of the electorate. Family issues have special appeal to these voters who ...

The Democrats Can Win on Family Issues

On the other hand, family issues could unite Democrats and highlight their best Ideas. The most hotly contested political constituency currently is the 22-40 year-old baby-boom generation, which now comprises nearly 40 percent of the electorate. Family issues have special appeal to these voters who ...