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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Educational advance for parent choice: 529 accounts available for K-12 public, private and religious schools
The new tax bill will not only encourage schools to offer the best educational opportunities, it will also bring new schools into the marketplace and strengthen the private and religious schools in Mi...
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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...
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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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