American Experiment on Families
Families Reports
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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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Fragmented Families and Silence of the Faithful: How Religious Leaders and Institutions Must Speak Up and Reach Out
Introduction by Mitch Pearlstein Back in the summer of 2012, American Experiment published a symposium titled Fragmented Families and Splintered Classes: Why So Much Churning? What Can be Done? What W...
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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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Drag Queens at the St. Paul Public Library. Too provocative for kids?
“There’s an adult sphere and there’s a sphere for children,” said Kim Crockett, vice president of the think tank Center for the American Experiment. “It is very clear to me that the St. Paul...
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Sex and the single mind: The origins of #MeToo
A culture hell-bent on separating pleasure from responsibility made #MeToo inevitable, so now should come the reflective part of the reckoning. This Sunday opinion cover commentary originally appeared...
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Why are public schools feeding students, who are not in school, during the summer?
I am not at all unsympathetic to hungry kids if they have incompetent and/or neglectful parents. But this is not a proper expenditure or activity for any public school. Period. This gives a whole new ...
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Saint Paul Public Library celebrates Pride with Drag Story Hour: All Ages Welcome?
Drag performers will regale families with glitz, glamor, and stories about acceptance and inclusion at three Saint Paul libraries...
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CAE’s Adjunct Fellow Kevin Terrell: “Start Reading Now” in Minneapolis reaches 5,500 Children
This year we are serving 5,500 kids in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade over nine days, and we will start to have test scores on the impact of the program on reading scores starting this fall....
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