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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Gov. Dayton’s relentless pursuit of our small children, and union revenues: Will the GOP hold the line?
If Dayton succeeds, he shifts the culture even closer to the socialist ideal of shaping little hearts and minds with the state’s approved education, re-orients our family schedules and budgets to de...
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When Harry Became Sally: The Left’s Assault on Reality
In October, 2015, Nova Classical Academy in St. Paul, one of the top charter schools in the nation at the time, was torn apart trying to accommodate a “transgender” five-year-old who only stayed f...
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Children Are Being Used to Call for Gun Control Wednesday: Keep Your Children Home (In Protest) #KeepYourKidHome
School aged children will be walking out of classrooms tomorrow morning all over Minnesota and the nation to “protest” in favor of new gun-control laws. My suggestion if your school is participati...
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Celebrating the Anniversary of a Victory Against Fake Unionization: Child Care Provider Freedom
Congratulations! It has been two years since child care providers around the state did something truly remarkable: they defeated a prolonged and well-financed attempt to convert their homes and busine...
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Happy Valentine’s Day. Now Go Get Married.
Marriage isn’t a purely private concern. It impacts you, your kids, and society. America needs to get better at it. This article, based on Lawrence Mead’s recent Center paper, “Resto...
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