From Disengaged to Selective: The Profiles of Young Adult Daters

In our previous research using the Wheatley Institute’s 2025 National Dating Landscape Survey, we identified a “dating recession” among American young adults. Specifically, we found that less than a third of young adults in the prime serious dating years (ages 22-35)—who expect to marry in the future—are dating at least once a month.

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From Girlbosses To Tradwives, The Internet Keeps Getting Femininity Wrong

Femininity begins with accepting that being female is not an identity a woman constructs but a nature she receives. Men and women share the same human dignity and moral obligations, but they are not interchangeable expressions of the same thing. Sexual difference reaches beyond anatomy. It shapes how men and women relate to one another, to family, and to the generations that come after them.

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Charting America’s Marriage Deserts and Gardens

In a new IFS report, we map the geography of family structure in the United States, identifying areas where married and married-parent households are either highly prevalent or notably scarce. Using newly-constructed maps and rankings based on 2020 Census data, we introduce two related concepts—marriage deserts and married-family deserts—to describe places where stable, married-family life is uncommon, alongside their counterparts, marriage gardens and married-family gardens, where it is most prevalent.

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