Our culture encourages nuclear families and discourages single parenthood, writes Nicole Sussner Rodgers. It’s an ideological bias still enshrined in law and policy, and one that needs to be tackled head-on.| www.wbur.org
Children in married families do better in school and in life. State agencies can do a better job of tracking these metrics| Deseret News
Young people need to know the proven path to success and well-being. Three strategies can help| Deseret News
Family Profile No. 09, 2018 Author: Karen Benjamin Guzzo The delay in parenthood over the past few decades has led to a small but steady increase in childbearing| Bowling Green State University
This post was originally intended for the launch of the People’s Policy Project website. But as that is running behind schedule, I figure I will post it here.| Matt Bruenig Dot Com
If you live in the First World, there is a simple and highly effective formula for avoiding poverty: Finish high school. Get a full-time job once you finish school. Get married before you have children. Researchers call this formula the “success sequence.”| Institute for Family Studies
Utah’s economic success cannot be separated from the strength and stability of its families| Deseret News
The surprising story of how declining marriage rates are driving many of the country’s biggest economic problems. In The Two-Parent Privilege, Melissa S. Kearney makes a provocative, data-driven case for marriage by showing how the institution’s decline has led to a host of economic woes—problems that have fractured American society and rendered vulnerable populations even more vulnerable. Eschewing the religious and values-based arguments that have long dominated this conversation, Kea...| University of Chicago Press