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"Homeward Bound" Addresses the End of Life
Ziettlow Sees Work Get Published
"Fathers"
D. Todd Christofferson, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, speaks about the importance of fathers and quotes David Blankenhorn's "Fatherless America" during the 2016 LDS General Conference.
Are We Still Married? Family Structure and Family Policy in the Emerging Age of the Unformed Family
Starting with the Obituaries
I recently came across a great piece of Estates and Trusts scholarship: "Making Things Fair": An Empirical Study of How People Approach the Wealth Transmission System, by Naomi Cahn and Amy Ziettlow. I was hooked as soon as I read that Cahn and Ziettlow began their data collection by reading every o...
The Honor Commandment: Law, Religion and the Challenge of Elder Care
As a religious law, adage, and recipe for generational reciprocity, the "honor commandment" looms large as a societal construct, especially with 76 million baby boomers in the United States approaching old age. This article explores how the honor commandment persists as a normative ethic in the live...
Can liberals do family values?
How Religious Institutions Can Bridge Class Gaps to Support Families
Is Divorce the Best Option for Older Americans?
We are divorcing well enough on our own, we do not need our social safety net encouraging divorce as the only viable option for protecting a family's nest egg. We need policies that reward and support privately provided care, which is cheaper for society to boot, that explicitly honors the marriages...
Making Things Fair after a Parent's Death
Everyone dies. But what happens to everything that they leave, their earthly possessions? Deciding who gets what is easier when there's a will or some other record of what the decedent wanted. Regardless of how much formal planning was ever completed, however, the process of distributing prized (or...
Making Things Fair: An Empirical Study of How People Approach the Wealth Transmission System
The wealth transmission process is of great concern to many senior citizens in the United States. The American wealth transmission process is designed to respect private ordering. It encourages planning as a means to formalize intent and ensure smoother property transfer at death. Most people do not...
"Making Things Fair": An Empirical Study of How People Approach the Wealth Transmission System
When an Imprisoned Parent Isn't Home for the Holidays
The word “home” remains one of the most evocative in the English language, especially in lyric form during the month of December. Countless singers croon of coming home or being home for the holidays, but for many families, including 2.7 million children—that’s one in 28 American kids—an i...
Like father like child: why your future may be closely tied to your father's income and education
Managing the Costs of Family Elder Care
November marks National Caregiving Month. Having served for many years as a hospice chaplain and COO, I have seen first hand the power of home-based, family-centered caregiving. However, for all its strengths, providing care to a seriously ill adult as an informal, uncompensated, family caregiver ca...
The Real Retirement Crisis
Why children need authoritative communities
Marriage today is still good for children, wealth and civil society
That marriage is a good thing for individuals and society can no longer be assumed. Yes, most Americans still aspire to marry and do marry. But recent research shows that growing numbers of Americans, especially younger ones, are either uncertain about marriage or express mistrust of the institution...