by Laurie DeRose Motherhood doesn’t cost women as much with respect to future earnings as it used to, according to new research on the motherhood wage penalty from Wei-hsin Yu and Janet...
https://ifstudies.org/blog/the-motherhood-wage-penalty-is-declining-but-only-for-some-women
by Gabriela Coca and Jocelyn Wikle (@JocelynWikle ) Most of us probably have people in our lives who struggle with an addiction of some kind, whether it be to smoking, using drugs, gambling...
https://ifstudies.org/blog/what-happens-when-children-are-exposed-to-pornography
by Loren Marks and David C. Dollahite A bone-deep hope, vision, and prayer of many highly religious parents is that their children will be true to the faith that they have cherished. A collis...
https://ifstudies.org/blog/will-our-children-cherish-our-faith
by Bill Coffin (@billcoffin ) Births: Provisional Data for 2023 NCHS, CDC Marriagelessness and the Loss of National Greatness Catherine Pakaluk, The Heritage Foundation March Madness an...
by Regan Arntz-Gray (@arntzgray1 ) In a recent Substack post, Alice Evans discussed status and gender inequality and how they relate to heterosexual relationships. She presented data from s...
https://ifstudies.org/blog/these-boots-were-made-for-walking-socioeconomic-status-gender-and-divorce
by Rosemary L. Hopcroft (@rlhopcro ) When I was a graduate student in sociology at the University of Washington, my advisor, a brilliant man named Pierre van den Berghe, once noted “the capi...
by Erica Komisar One of the most detrimental and perhaps overlooked factors in the mental health crisis facing adolescents and young adults is hookup culture. A recent Tinder ad is a great exa...
https://ifstudies.org/blog/confronting-the-toll-of-hookup-culture
by Chris Bullivant (@chrisbullivant ) and Brad Wilcox (@BradWilcoxIFS ) The American experiment is in trouble. Deaths of despair — due to suicide, drugs or alcohol poisoning — have surged...
by Bill Coffin (@billcoffin ) Boy Troubles: Why Dads Are Key to Closing the Gender Education Gap Fatherhood Institute Married Americans Thriving at Higher Rates Than Unmarried Adults Jon...
by Daniel Cox (@dcoxpolls ) Our parents play a critical role in shaping our political perspectives and values. Politically active parents tend to raise children who become lifelong voters, whi...
https://ifstudies.org/blog/why-republican-parents-raise-democratic-daughters
by Harry Benson (@harrybenson6 ) One of the big problems with most national household surveys is that they don’t tell us what people are really like. They tell us about people’s background...
by Rosemary L. Hopcroft (@rlhopcro ) “I will do anything, Nerissa, ere I will be married to a sponge,” the heiress Portia tells her personal assistant in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of V...
by Beverly Willett (@BeverlyWillett ) I’ve been reading Suzanne Venker’s books for years. Her latest, How to Build a Better Life: A New Roadmap for Women Who Want to Prioritize Love & Fam...
https://ifstudies.org/blog/new-book-offers-advice-to-young-career-women-who-want-more
by Bill Coffin (@billcoffin ) Colleges Are Baby Deserts. That Needs to Change Leah Libresco Sargeant, Deseret News The Surprising Ways Your Siblings and Your Health May be Linked Michael...
by Wendy Wang (@WendyRWang ) The U.S. is battling an epidemic of sad, anxious young women. Despite the surge in our opportunities and freedoms over the past 50 years, it appears we are more de...
https://ifstudies.org/blog/marriage-and-babies-really-do-make-women-happier
by Robert VerBruggen (@RAVerBruggen ) In a brief new paper , sociologists Joanna R. Pepin and Philip N. Cohen highlight a new and worrisome trend: Fewer high-school seniors think they will ge...
https://ifstudies.org/blog/fewer-high-school-seniors-see-marriage-in-their-future
by Patrick T. Brown (@PTBwrites ) How hard do we have to look for a silver lining to the birth dearth? For those who care about the share of children growing up with the “privilege ” of a ...
https://ifstudies.org/blog/some-good-news-about-married-fertility-in-the-us
by Tara Henley (@TaraRHenley ) Some years ago, a friend of mine made an observation that I have thought about ever since. “We, as women, can do absolutely anything,” she said, “except fo...
https://ifstudies.org/blog/liberal-feminism-is-antithetical-to-fostering-healthy-relationships
by Lyman Stone (@lymanstoneky ) and Laurie DeRose At the 1994 Cairo International Conference on Population and Development, a new global consensus formed around the idea that enhancing women�...
by Bill Coffin (@billcoffin ) Social Media and Adolescent Health National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine Growing Uncertainty in Marriage Expectations among U.S. Youth Joa...
by Adam Candeub , Clare Morell (@ClareMorellEPPC ) and Michael Toscano Porn companies do nothing to shield our children from their explicit and obscene content , which is increasingly viole...
https://ifstudies.org/blog/age-verification-for-porn-sites-is-constitutionaland-necessary
by Serena Sigillito (@SerenaSigillito ) When I was in college, one of my best friends used to playfully adopt a rather unusual alter-ego. We called her “the cognitive distortion fairy.” Wh...
https://ifstudies.org/blog/most-kids-dont-need-therapy-they-need-healthy-and-supportive-families
by Leonard Sax (@unfragilekids ) Over the past 30 years, there has been a marked rise in the proportion of children and teens diagnosed with psychiatric disorders. Why? As a family doctor (MD)...
by Ivana Greco (@IvanaDGreco ) and Amber Lapp (@AmberLappOH ) Both of us are well-versed in the challenges of raising children. Between us, we collectively have nine kids. Without our respect...
https://ifstudies.org/blog/marriage-should-not-be-the-elephant-in-the-room
by Bryant Lee America has long been described as a land of opportunity. It should come as no surprise, then, that the American public has traditionally been enamored with an idea that taps int...
https://ifstudies.org/blog/how-married-couples-perceive-the-american-dream