American Experiment on Families
Families Reports
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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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Can America’s Religious Traditions Strengthen Marriage? Minnesota Leaders Say “Yes” and Propose How
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This report draws on five intellectually rich roundtable discussions involving nineteen Minnesotans, both lay and clergy, held at Center of the American Experiment in the late summer...
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Families Articles
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Establishing Paternity and Responsible Fatherhood
Establishing Paternity and Responsible Fatherhood...
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Prime Minister Cameron’s Prime Remarks
Whatever you may have thought about British Prime Minister David Cameron in the past, or whatever you may think about him these days with Britain leaving the European Union and his own upcoming depart...
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Specifically, What Must We Do to Repair Our Culture of Massive Family Fragmentation?
SPECIFICALLY, WHAT MUST WE DO TO REPAIR OUR CULTURE OF MASSIVE FAMILY FRAGMENTATION? Posted by Mitch Pearlstein on Jun, 20 2016 View Full Report Featuring essays by Jason Adkins, Randy Ahlm, Frank B. ...
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Families Posts
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Voluntary Pre-K held at 2017 level, but does not target neediest children
Minnesota is spending enormous sums of money on education programs for very young children, but the state’s mission is muddled and the results discouraging. Plus, the policy forces private child car...
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A Burden Don Fraser Learned to Bear
My favorite personal memory of Don Fraser, who died earlier this week at 95. Sometime in the mid-1980s, Don, who was then mayor of Minneapolis, said something about “unsupported women.” By which...
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By Far the Largest Observable Factor
The number of scholars and journalists who write frequently about the effects of family fragmentation in the United States is not large; certainly not as large as the severity of the problem suggests ...
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Has Mobility in the United States Really Declined?
Drawing on a brilliant book by Berkeley’s Neil Gilbert, I recently (April 25) wrote about how family fragmentation adversely affects economic and social mobility. But what about perpetual claims t...
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Save for Senator Lee, Republicans are Pretty Much Silent, Too
Sen. Mike Lee of Utah was on CNN the other morning and I mentioned to my wife Diane that I liked him for several reasons, one being he’s among the very few people in Washington who talk bravely abou...
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