Asked to name the most pressing problem confronting the American family, many conservatives would say its breakdown since the advent of the welfare state. That’s a valid answer, but a larger problem ...

For decades, conventional wisdom has held that the trajectory of American family life is heading in one direction: towards the abolition of marriage as the stable anchor of family life and a more ...

Young Americans are choosing to marry and have children at much lower rates than their parents and grandparents. “In 1980, just 6% of 40-year-olds had never been married,” according to the Pew ...

Hello, my name is Jerome Ford. Marriage can be challenging, complex and difficult to navigate. It is by far one of the most difficult relationships to maintain when you consider the words “Till death ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to better understand Americans’ views of trends in marriage, fertility and family life; the responsibility of family members to support each other; and factors ...

A new report from the Heritage Foundation argues the American family is in crisis and that strengthening marriage and family formation should be a core focus of U.S. federal policy. The conservative ...

The U.S. birth rate has been on a downward slide since the Great Recession. In 2024, the total fertility rate went up slightly though, but still by less than 1 percent. The total projected number of ...

Delano is Director of The Heritage Foundation’s Richard and Helen DeVos Center for Human Flourishing. The decline in married, two-parent homes means the black family is more fractured today than it ...

In thinking about the future of the United States, Americans are more pessimistic than optimistic about the institution of marriage and the family. Overall, 40% say they are very or somewhat ...

The Donald Trump era has scrambled the relationship between partisanship and many of the most important social axes of American life—class, gender, region, and now even race and ethnicity. Since 2016, ...

Marriage, once the cornerstone of family and society, is facing a rapid decline in many parts of the world. Fewer people are choosing to marry, and those who do are often delaying it until later in ...