American Experiment on Families
Families Reports
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Restoring a Marriage Norm
View full report. Introduction Marriage is in decline in America, to the detriment of individuals and society alike, and yet we do essentially nothing about it. In this paper, I contest the common v...
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Was Trump and Clinton’s Campaign Silence Regarding Family Fragmentation Golden? A Symposium
View Full Report Compiled & with an Introduction by Mitch Pearlstein Essays By: Paul Allick, Harry Boyte, Barry Casselman, Frank Cerra, Chuck Chalberg, William Doherty, William Duncan, Dave Durenb...
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Specifically, What Must We Do to Repair Our Culture of Massive Family Fragmentation?
Featuring an Introduction by Mitch Pearlstein and essays by Jason Adkins, Randy Ahlm, Frank B. Cerra, Chuck Chalberg, Ward Conte, Bryan Dowd, Todd R. Flanders, Arvonne Fraser, Jake Haulk, Pete Hegseth...
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Families Articles
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After an ugly election season, can we celebrate what unites us?
Americans get along better than we give ourselves credit for — and our musicians and sports teams give us a place to celebrate that. Much has been said this year, especially in recent weeks, about t...
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Transgender Conformity at Nova Classical Academy
First Things | December 2016 Nova Classical Academy, a K–12 charter school in St. Paul, Minnesota, is the sort of school that most parents seeking a first-rate education for their children can only ...
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Americans of all sorts get along better than sour clichés have it
I rise in praise of superficial relationships among America’s 320 million or so men, women, and younger people, regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, social clas...
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Families Posts
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Anne Tyler’s Novels Offer Important Lessons on the Inner Workings of Families
This post originally appeared on the Institute for Family Studies blog. Anne Tyler has written a wonderful new novel about every three years going back to 1964—or to be precise, about every 29 month...
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Arvonne Fraser: American Experiment Contributor
Arvonne Fraser, who died recently at 92, contributed several essays over the years to American Experiment symposia that I compiled on a variety of subjects. She also was one of my 40 interviewees in...
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Marriage, Military Service, Black Churches, and More Mundane Founts
In late June, the American Enterprise Institute released a study by three scholars which found “more than one-in-two black men (57%) have made it into the middle class or higher as adults, up from 3...
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Cheating at Play, Cheating in Life?
This essay originally appeared on the Institute for Family Studies website. I didn’t cheat. Neither did my brother or my sister. Both affirmed this adamantly when I asked them if they had ever cheat...
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Mrs. Greene Goes to Washington: Trump Administration to Roll Back the Dayton-Smith-DFL Union Dues Skimming Scheme
To be clear, if the Obama rule is fixed, the unions that have been certified would unfortunately continue until they are decertified—that is why MNPCA is not giving up in Minnesota. Decertification ...
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