American Experiment on Families
Families Reports
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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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“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...
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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Is the Dayton administration trying to prevent PCAs from winning a new union election?
MNPCA is a coalition of home-based personal care attendants (PCAs) who care for persons with disabilities in their homes under a Medicaid program. In most cases, the PCA is a woman caring for a family...
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