When Family Rights Are Undermined by Child Protective Services It was a case that should have been on the front page of every major newspaper, or the opening story on every newsfeed—a case that seemed to have more akin to a bad horror flick than to reality. In the spring of 2019, police arrested 18 […]
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Commentators have noticed for some time now the seeming dearth of “marriageable” men, i.e. the ones with education, employment, and income comparable to women’s. Many factors have been blamed for this trend—lack of economic opportunity, higher rates of female education, a crunched labor market. Now, researchers from Cornell, Brigham Young, and South Utah Universities have joined together for a systematic study of this phenomenon in America.
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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Lonely The media remains fascinated with the practice of cohabitation, and with it the dream that marriage is “becoming outdated” or “evolving.”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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For decades, the media and even various policy groups have told Americans that it’s OK—nay, it’s good and healthy—to explore multiple sexual relationships with multiple partners. Merely watching television may lead one to conclude that most Americans lead sex lives that are wildly promiscuous and adventurous. But a new study out of the Institute for […]
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Cheap Sex: The Transformation of Men, Marriage, and Monogamy Mark Regnerus Oxford University Press, 2017; 280 pages, $29.95 Marriage has been on a steep, decades-long decline in the United States. Some have worried about this decline; others have simply attributed it to inevitable changes. Marriage is outdated, they say, soon to be replaced by cohabitation […]
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