A new academic report carefully explains an important paradox with marriage in America today and the bottom line is interesting. As marriage rates continue to decline, the social sciences are documenting how robust the benefits of marriage are for adults and their children. In fact, these benefits are growing stronger in essential ways. Brad Wilcox, […] The post Family Scholars Explain the Current Marriage Paradox in America appeared first on Daily Citizen ..read more

Catherine, the Princess of Wales, released a heartwarming video Monday announcing that she had completed her cancer treatment. “As the summer comes to an end, I can’t tell you what a relief it is to have finally completed my chemotherapy treatment,” she says. “Doing what I can to stay cancer free is now my focus,” […] The post Princess Kate Video Highlights the Fragility of Life appeared first on Daily Citizen ..read more

An advisory issued by Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy suggests parenthood can be hazardous to your health. “Parents Under Pressure” attempts to address the mental health and well-being of moms and dads. The 35-page document acknowledges and elaborates on many of the challenges facing the typical American family – and then suggests what individuals and government institutions can do […] The post Surgeon General’s Report on Stress and Parenting Acknowledges Problem – But Ignores Cause appeared first on Daily Citizen ..read more

One of my earliest memories is of my dad reading Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Farmer Boy to my sisters and me before bedtime. I must have been about five, growing up in San Diego in the 1960s – but vicariously experiencing life on a New York farm a hundred years earlier. The farmer boy of the […] The post Keep Lots of Books in Your Home – It Matters for Your Children appeared first on Daily Citizen ..read more

This is the second in a series of four articles examining four critical family formation trends: marriage, children living with married parents, divorce, and cohabitation. This report gives the overview of fertility and marital parenthood from various academic and government sources. No society can survive without a growing population and that requires men and women […] The post Mapping US Fertility and Married Parenting Rates appeared first on Daily Citizen ..read more

It’s not an easy time to parent girls. Don’t get me wrong — legally, it’s never been better to be woman. Unlike almost every generation of women before them , your daughters will get to vote, own property, choose a career, make and control their own money, and socialize with people they want. But America’s […] The post American Heritage Girls: Combatting Culture’s Attacks on Girls appeared first on Daily Citizen ..read more

It is a basic and irrefutable truth: There is no tomorrow without babies today. No laughter, no giving, no receiving, no learning, no caring, no hope, no progress — no society. Sadly, birth rates are declining dramatically all around the world and fertility in the United States has fallen to an all-time low. Increasingly, younger […] The post Why Americans Over and Under 50 Say They Don’t Have Kids appeared first on Daily Citizen ..read more

Ana Samuel is a Ph.D. who graduated from Princeton and Notre Dame, a political philosopher, author, the wife of an architect. She and her husband are raising their six kids. She was struck by a Pew survey that highlighted that parents are far more interested in their kids getting a college degree – 41% said […] The post One Family’s Plan to Intentionally Raise Their Kids for Marital Success appeared first on Daily Citizen ..read more

JUMP TO… The Problem The Consequences Parkside Elementary School Types of Predators What School Employees Can Do What Parents Can Do Why It Matters In the first — and last — national survey of educator sexual misconduct, 1 in 10 students between 13 and 17 years old reported abuse by a school employee. It’s a shockingly high number that Charol Shakeshaft, a leading researcher of employee-on-student sex abuse, called “significantly less” than the results of previous regional studies. That was in 2000. A RealClearInvestigations (RCI) report published last week finds little has changed, callin ..read more

Parents around the world have started working together to keep their kids off smartphones. Early and excessive smartphone use can cause debilitating physical and mental health problems. In his book, The Anxious Generation, social psychologist Jonathan Haidt links premature smartphone use to lack of sleep, exposure to addictive and inappropriate content, and problems with social development. Most parents probably know about these risks, but few feel they can shield their children from them. Smartphones are ubiquitous — even among kids. A 2021 survey from Common Sense, a digital safety non-profi ..read more