Category: Marriage/Family

Readiness matters—both for securing marriage in the first place and for making it work long-term. If those same blue collar and working-class people imbibe the meme without the nuance, rushing marriage without taking a realistic inventory of their life circumstances and skills, including many of the soft skills increasingly demonized in the same media ecosystems, they will be setting themselves up for failure and disappointment. As Christopher Lasch explains, “Our ideal of ’true romance‘ puts an impossible burden on personal relationships. We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves.”

When the first concerns of parents for their children are money and status rather than building families, then the odds against a renewal of marriage and the family seem insurmountable.

Getting married at 22 never felt limiting to me. Looking back 20 years later, I believe it helped me flourish professionally and personally.

In our new report, American’s Demoralized Men, we show that most young men want to get married, and they want to have children.

A new alliance of pro-family organizations has formed to combat the growing threats artificial intelligence poses to children, demanding strong safeguards against Big Tech’s profit-driven push into harmful content and unchecked experimentation.

Parents who stay home to raise their kids are often told they have “the most important job in the world.” But who are these stay-at-home parents? For the past two years, on behalf of the think tank Capita, we have been talking to and conducting research on moms and dads at home who take care of small children. As part of this research, we have conducted focus groups and interviews and solicited surveys. Recently, we released a new report on our findings. And what we’ve discovered is that there is no simple answer to that question.

The corporation is receiving praise and plaudits for its new heartfelt, pro-family “Midnight Magic” ad for Disney Cruise Line which aired on Sunday during the Academy Awards.

Beyond legal issues, gambling can lead to addiction, stress and academic or athletic distractions. According to Bernal, the number-one demographic calling gambling addiction hotlines are young adults and teens.