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Family Fact of the Week: How Welfare Reform Helped Families
The best anti-poverty program is a job. That was the mantra of the 1996 welfare reform, which changed the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program into the Temporary Assistance for Needy...
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Family Fact of the Week: The Dad Divide in Children’s Welfare
A recent New York Times article about the growing marriage and class divide in America featured two middle-class families in Ann Arbor, Michigan. At the heart of the story are the disparate lives of...
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Family Fact of the Week: One in Four Babies Born to Cohabiting Women
The percentage of babies born to cohabiting women has jumped substantially in the last 10 years, according to new data from the National Center for Health Statistics. “The number of births overall to...
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Family Fact of the Week: Parents, Pop Culture, and Early Teen Sex
Parents instinctively know that the over-sexualized culture promoted by Hollywood is not healthy for their teens. A recent study in the academic journal Psychological Science quantified such concerns....
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Family Fact of the Week: Back to School Prep Is a Lifelong Project
It’s back-to-school time, and parents are scurrying to equip their children for success. But children’s school preparation should begin much earlier than August. As numerous studies show, it should...
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Family Fact of the Week: Marriage Promotes Longevity
New research continues to show that marriage is connected to longer life. A new study from researchers at Michigan State University and the University of Cincinnati compares mortality rates between...
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Family Fact of the Week: Marriage Is the Greatest Weapon Against Child Poverty
New research shows that marriage is the nation’s best antidote to child poverty. This holds true in every state across the country. On Wednesday, The Heritage Foundation introduced a new web page...
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Family Fact of the Week: Why Values Matter
A recent Gallup poll found that, for the first time, a majority of Americans think that the government should not promote traditional values. This opinion regarding the government’s role reflects a...
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Family Fact of the Week: Fathers’ Involvement Helps Teens Delay Sexual Activity
A new study published in the journal Pediatrics adds to a body of research showing the importance of fathers in protecting children against negative outcomes, from lower academic achievement to...
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Family Fact of the Week for Hurricane Sandy: Religion Promotes Volunteering,...
Hurricane Sandy dealt widespread destruction to multiple cities across the East Coast this week. The storm—cited as the largest in generations—took numerous lives and left in its wake heart-rending...
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Family Fact of the Week: Americans Take to the Polls on Marriage and Life
Whatever the outcome of today’s elections, Americans can be sure of nonstop electoral analysis and number crunching from pundits and pollsters for at least the next few weeks. Charts and maps and...
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Family Fact of the Week: Foster Care and the Future of Children
This week, nearly 100 policymakers, practitioners, and administrators met in Washington, D.C., to discuss new solutions for the complex issue of poverty. Among the topics discussed was the nation’s...
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Family Fact of the Week: Teens Need Parental Involvement, Not “Emergency...
A new policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has some parents and physicians concerned—and rightly so. The statement recommends that pediatricians counsel adolescent patients on...
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Family Fact of the Week: Celebrate Marriage’s Many Benefits This Valentine’s Day
Photo credit: Ken Weingart Stock Connection Worldwide/Newscom Married couples across the country will commemorate St. Valentine’s Day today by exchanging cards and flowers and raising a glass to love....
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Family Fact of the Week: The Feminine Mystique and Feminists’ Mistake
Mario Ruiz/ZUMA Press/Newscom Among the landmarks in the 2013 Women’s History Month is the 50th anniversary of the publication of Betty Friedan’s The Feminine Mystique—a work that was once hailed as...
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Montana Radio Station Funded by Community Celebrates 50 Years
Courtesy KGLE Recognized this month with the National Religious Broadcasters’ Milestone Award for exemplary service, radio station KGLE has been providing inspiration for over 50 years to thousands of...
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Family Fact of the Week: Thankful for Religious Freedom on National Day of...
Don Hammond/Design Pics/Newscom Millions of people of faith in America will participate today in the 62nd annual National Day of Prayer. Although the National Day of Prayer was not established by...
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Family Fact of the Week: It’s a Good Time to Thank Your Mother
Today is Mother’s Day. Throughout the nation, many will have the opportunity to remember their mothers’ love and care throughout their lives. It is also a good time for all to bear in mind how crucial...
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Family Fact of the Week: Family and Religious Practice
Newscom Religious practice and the family are intricately intertwined, according to Mary Eberstadt, a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. Eberstadt studied the relationship between family...
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Family Fact: Fatherlessness in America
Sixty percent of kids in Richmond, Virginia, are without a dad in the home, reports First Things First of Greater Richmond. First Things First works to help men become actively involved in their...
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Family Fact of the Week: What the Record-Low Marriage Rate Means for...
Newscom Though the marriage rate in America has reached an all-time low, there is a small sign of hope. Within the next two years, there will be a slight rise in the number of weddings as Millennials...
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Family Fact of the Week: Majority of Americans Pray
A new Pew Forum poll shows that 48 percent of Americans say a decline of religion is bad for American society. But do fewer Americans consider themselves faithful these days? Over the past two decades,...
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Family Fact of the Week: Americans Have Religious Liberty Every Day of the Week
Newscom What days should Americans be able to live out their religious beliefs? Is religious liberty limited to church on Sunday or synagogue on Saturday? Or can deeply held beliefs influence the...
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Family Fact of the Week: Teens Are Putting Off Sexual Activity
Photo credit: Moment/ZUMA Press/Newscom A recent report by the Guttmacher Institute reveals that more teens are choosing to delay sexual activity. The median age for first sexual intercourse is...
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Family Fact of the Week: The Transforming Power of Fatherhood
In their new book Gender and Parenthood, Brad Wilcox and Kathleen Kovner Kline squarely face a current cultural trend that portrays the father as an optional family figure and heralds the concept of...
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Family Fact of the Week: Parents Contribute More Than School Supplies to...
As the days wane in late summer, so do parents’ bank accounts as they invest in school supplies for their children. In fact, reports show that this year, per-family expenditures to equip their young...
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Family Fact of the Week: Churchgoers Smoke Less
After all manner of campaigns against smoking, it turns out that civil society has some sway in the matter. A recent Gallup poll found that regular church attendees are three times less likely to pick...
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Family Fact of the Week: Universal Child Care Does Not Bode Well for...
Newscom Rumblings are once again underway indicating movement on President Obama’s State of the Union proposal to “work with states to make high-quality preschool available to every single child in...
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Family Fact of the Week: Dimming Aspirations in the Rise of Cohabitation
Since 1960, the number of cohabiting couples in our nation has skyrocketed from 450,000 to more than 7.5 million. As a motivation to move into cohabitation, couples have cited spending more time...
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Family Fact of the Week: Stagnant Poverty Numbers Signal Need for Change
Source: The Heritage Foundation The number of people in poverty in America stagnated in 2012, according to a recent report by the U.S. Census Bureau. This comes as no surprise. Since the government...
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