Family and relationship scholars have observed the growing trend toward cohabitation with wonder. Is this a new substitute, as most such scholars claim, for the old-fashioned concept of marriage? Or is it a passing behavioral blip? One argument runs thus: Yes, cohabitation tends to be associated with slightly lower rates of happiness and commitment, but […]
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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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December 21, 2018 The Topic: 2018 in Review The News Story: The Story of 2018, in 10 Charts The New Research: Marriage—Global Shield Against Trauma The News Story: The Story of 2018, in 10 Charts “It was the year The Avengers topped the movie charts, France won the World Cup for the second time and Prince Harry […]
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Few issues worry public-health officials more than the emergence of ever more pathogens resistant to antibiotics. Not surprisingly, epidemiologists have identified overuse of antibiotics as a cause of the problem. But physicians are especially likely to rely on antibiotics in what circumstances? Study after study has identified children who have contracted an illness while in […]
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Few indeed were the Americans not keenly aware of the financial distress consequent to the Great Recession beginning in late 2007 and lasting until mid-2009. Almost all American households suffered some loss as a result of this economic typhoon. However, in a newly completed study, researchers at Columbia and the University of Michigan convincingly establish […]
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When progressive activists launched their crusade to dismantle the natural family, few social scientists voiced concerns. Instead, most joined the choirs singing paeons to the gods of radical individualism, luminous deities promising endless happiness and autonomy to men and women who shed the oppressive restraints of marriage and family life. Savvy social scientists were even, […]
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November 27, 2018 The Topic: An Oft-Overlooked Cause of Teen Suicide The News Story: Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High The New Research: Brooding on the Baltic The News Story: Suicides Among Japanese Young People Hit 30-Year High In Japan, experts are puzzling over why suicides are at a 30-year high for children, […]
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