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Connect Images / Getty The Awfulness of Elite Hypocrisy on Marriage
The privileged classes would never dream of saying one form of family life is better than another. So why are they always married?
Chien-Chi Chang / Magnum Now Political Polarization Comes for Marriage Prospects
This is bad news for marriage.
Paul Spella / The Atlantic; Shutterstock The Married-Mom Advantage
Motherhood during the pandemic wasn’t so miserable after all. But some moms did better than others.
Maridelis Morales Rosado / The New York Times / Redux The Nuclear Family Is Still Indispensable
Rumors of its demise have been greatly exaggerated—and it remains the stablest environment in which to raise children.
H. Armstrong Roberts / Getty The Happiness Recession
Today’s young adults are replacing church and marriage with friendships. But there’s one thing for which they have no substitute.
Adam Hester / Getty What Tucker Carlson Gets Right
The stability of working-class family life has eroded—and elite policy makers are partially to blame.
Richard Drew / AP A GOP Tax-Reform Proposal That Would Help the Working Class, Not the Donor Class
Republicans are ignoring the needs of the constituents who helped elect them—and giving preference to those who are already flourishing.
Carlos Barria / Reuters How the Church Helps Black Men Flourish in America
The structure it provides, along with the values it instills, strengthens employment prospects, family life, and more.
Andrew Burton / Reuters Marriage as a Matter of Social Justice
Could Pope Francis’s message bridge the divide between the progressive concern for inequality and the conservative focus on families?
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