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Is marriage merely a private institution, only between two people and therefore nobody else’s business? Or is marriage actually a very public institution in which it serves a much larger public [...]

This December has also seen a debate over whether and how to expand the child tax credit, and that debate has brought more attention to another one: Why have US birth rates been dropping? [Ramesh [...]

The family presents a problem for contemporary policymakers. We call our culture individualistic, but really it would be better to say it is quantitative, unit-based. [Micah Meadowcroft – [...]

This year’s Prenatal-to-3 State Policy Roadmap tracks which American states have implemented policies considered helpful for those formative years — a period deemed the “fastest, most vulnerable [...]

Family Science is where “the primary goals are the discovery, verification and application of knowledge about the family.”

Urban strategies need to move towards innovative ways to preserve the value generated by the urban areas and benefit the families living and working in them.

Making child care more accessible would lead to more opportunities for women and more economic prosperity for the country. [Cindy Cisneros and Grace Reef – US News, 19 October 2022.] READ MORE

The measures examined are characterized by their variety and their rapid changeability. [Ulrich Becker and Anika Seemann (Ed.) – Nomos, October 2022]. READ MORE

While efforts to introduce a new federal paid family leave program continue to stall in Congress, the number of states that have introduced their own programs climbed to 11 last year. [Joshua [...]

Using linked U.S. birth and infant death data with a difference-in-differences framework, the study finds that a 6-week plan in California reduced the post-neonatal mortality rate. [Feng Chen – [...]