January 9, 2020 The Topic: The Decade in Review—and Why Our Children Are Suffering The News Story: How the Definition of an American Family Has Changed The New Research: Children in Broken Homes—Twenty More Years of Research The News Story: How the Definition of an American Family Has Changed A year-end Wall Street Journal story focused on […]
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December 17, 2019 The Topic: Freezing Eggs, Creating False Peace and Social Stratification The News Story: The Unexpected Freedom That Comes With Freezing Your Eggs The New Research: Freezing Eggs, Indulging in Utopian Fantasies The News Story: The Unexpected Freedom That Comes With Freezing Your Eggs A recent New York Times story on the increasingly popular trend […]
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December 3, 2019 The Topic: Downplaying Divorce The News Story: Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) to Improve U.S. Health The New Research: Doctor’s Orders—Intact Parental Marriages for Kids The News Story: Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) to improve U.S. health The U.S. Centers for Disease Control recently issued a press release on new findings detailing […]
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November 12, 2019 The Topic: Lonely Hearts Club The News Story: Let’s Wage a War on Loneliness The New Research: Unmarried—And Lonely The media remains fascinated with the practice of cohabitation, and with it the dream that marriage is “becoming outdated” or “evolving.” The latest evidence of this fascination is a Psychology Today post arguing […]
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October 29, 2019 The Topic: Real Bullying Prevention The News Story: What Are the Best Ways to Prevent Bullying in Schools? The New Research: The Fatherless Victims of Bullying October is National Bullying Prevention Month, and multiple media stories this month have focused on the ill effects of bullying, how to identify bullies, and strategies […]
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October 9, 2019 The Topic: Cohabitation and Financial Well-Being The News Story: How Cohabitation Became the Hottest Life-Strategy in Town The New Research: Long-Term Financial Damage The media remains fascinated with the practice of cohabitation, and with it the dream that marriage is “becoming outdated” or “evolving.” The latest evidence of this fascination is a […]
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February 26, 2019 The Topic: AOC and Population Control The News Story: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: ‘Is it OK to still have children?’ The New Research: Roots of Recession In a line that is not today as radical as it once was, New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took to her Instagram account over the weekend to […]
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February 12, 2019 The Topic: The Role of Religion in Lasting Love The News Story: Want a Happy and Successful Marriage? The New Research: Growing Old, Going to Church, Avoiding Divorce With Valentine’s Day here this week, the media has taken to speculating on that all-important question: In this age of easy divorce, what makes […]
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January 28, 2019 The Topic: Infertility and Ignorance The News Story: Here’s Why the Birth Rate Is So Low in the United States The New Research: Sterile Fantasies The U.S. birth rate dropped to a 30-year low in 2018, and at the same time that the mainstream media is celebrating huge pro-abortion victories in New […]
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January 9, 2019 The Topic: Divorce Day, 2019 The News Story: New Year, Stale Marriage? January Brings Surge in Filings The New Research: The Children of Divorce—Anything but Resilient In the U.S., U.K., and many other nations around the world, the first working January after the holidays is dubbed “Divorce Day.” It’s the day when […]
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