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Lonely The media remains fascinated with the practice of cohabitation, and with it the dream that marriage is “becoming outdated” or “evolving.”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Damage The media remains fascinated with the practice of cohabitation, and with it the dream that marriage is “becoming outdated” or “evolving.”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 Marriage is outdated, they say, soon to be replaced by cohabitation […]
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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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The Sexual State: How Elite Ideologies are Destroying Lives and Why the Church Was Right All Along Jennifer Roback Morse TAN Books, 2018; 420 pages, $27.95 How did the world go crazy, so quickly? How did America transform seemingly overnight from a country with an impressively strong marriage and family culture and a robust fertility […]
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