Category: Marriage/Family

Should a woman take her husband’s last name when she gets married? It’s a hotly contested question today, including this week where it’s been a particular topic of conversation on X. The Pew Research Center suggests that 79% of women take their husband’s last name. Yet while the debate over married names vs. maiden names still rages, online at least, it is rarely informed by actual data. Are couples in which the woman keeps her maiden name or chooses to hyphenate her last name systematically different from couples who share the husband’s surname?

We don’t need perfect love; we need responsive love.

Men who never married were found to have a 70% higher likelihood of cancer than married...

Of all the charts and graphs we’ve shown in the HOTLINE, these may be the scariest.  The CDC just...

When it comes to cohabitation and marriage, the newest thing is not always the most...

Although cohabiting can seem financially wise, more careful discussion about long-term realities...

The UN is considering merging the UN Population Fund and UN Women as part of a broader overhaul of the UN system to reduce costs and streamline operations. However, feminist groups are strongly opposed to the proposed merger, arguing that it would mark a reversal of their progress.

If you were asked to picture a domestic threat, you would likely imagine something overtly violent, radical, or destabilizing. What you would not expect is that the description might extend to ordinary Americans raising families, practicing their faith, or embracing traditional views of motherhood.

Costin Alamariu, who writes under the nom de guerre “Bronze Age Pervert,” is a 45-year-old childless Romanian whose academic career has not managed to generate anything peer-reviewed. To be blunt, his life is similar to what a recent IFS survey showed many young men fear becoming. He is also a poor historian and an even worse demographer; but his provocative aphorisms have won him an online following, and as such, his recent article, “Fertility Cult,” has gone viral.

A recent European study presents a substantial challenge to the expectation that family norms will continue to liberalize. Across social contexts, people recognize differences between cohabitation and marriage.