American Experiment on Families
Families Reports
-
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...
Read full report -
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...
Read full report -
“Where the Boys Are”
Download the PDF. Connie Francis might not conjure up an image to today’s young men and women, and it’s not often that I hear her name, yet when I was growing up in the sixties, the name Connie Fr...
Read full report
Families Articles
-
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...
Read full article -
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 ...
Read full article -
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...
Read full article
Families Posts
-
The New Normal? DHS Partners with Extremist SEIU to Administer Medicaid Program for the Disabled
Who would have ever guessed that people who care for the disabled in their homes would have to fight their own state government to protect a precious Medicaid benefit from a dues-skimming scheme by th...
Read full post -
Dayton sacrifices children on the altar of government unions, again
Dayton has tanked Opportunity Scholarships and from what I hear this morning, is threatening to veto a very, very generous spending package for K-12 schools because the bill did not fund his signature...
Read full post -
Yesterday’s Love Stories: The Gray Divorce Phenomenon
Originally posted on the Institute for Family Studies website. It was a dark and stormy night. The rain came down in torrents, beating against my windshield, slowing my drive. I arrived at the communi...
Read full post -
DHS says all-day Kindergarten has reduced pre-school options for parents
I was on the Department of Human Services (DHS) website today looking for some information about refugees in Minnesota. We had hoped to release our paper on the impact of the refugee program on the st...
Read full post -
What Wasn’t Said about Mobility in this Year’s Elections?
Editor’s Note: One of the most important themes in last month’s elections had to do with the many millions of Americans who believe they are stuck in place occupationally and in just about every o...
Read full post