Category: Marriage/Family

We’re witnessing the real-world consequences of an ideological divide where the Right prioritizes marriage and childbearing and the Left discounts them in fertility and population shifts across America.

The work and family landscape for women is changing. After rising sharply across the 1970s through the 1990s, the “revolution” in women’s labor force participation appeared to stall for the next two decades. That “stall” reflected a persistent preference among married mothers, especially those with young children, to pull back from full-time employment

Young women are now less likely than young men to say they hope to get married someday, according to newly released research. This reality highlights an “anti-nuptial turn” among young women, a prominent sociologist warns.

arriage is hard—not because the institution of marriage is broken, but because it’s where we learn to be stronger, wiser, and more loving adults. I’m a psychiatrist and have been working with couples for more than 20 years now. I often tell my clients, love is both something we fall into, and something we learn to do.

Tokyo is making headlines with an unprecedented initiative: a four-day workweek for its government employees as an attempt to reverse Japan’s alarming demographic crisis and tackle the country’s status as the world’s oldest population. This idea, first introduced in 2024, is not merely about economic productivity — rather, it is part of a concerted attempt to support families and boost birth rates in Japan.

Falling rates of marriage and fertility in America today are partly due to worsening housing conditions for young people, something we’ve shown extensively in recent research. Those deteriorating housing conditions are partly a basic supply problem: not enough housing is getting built.