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Substantial evidence indicates that high-quality early care and education experiences, facilitated through policies to expand and enhance program offerings, can support both parents’ employment [...]

Despite all the chaos and struggles, the fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic gave many parents the first-hand experience of working from home. And they liked it. [Wendy Wang and Jenet Erickson [...]

State leaders and community advocates called for better support and policies for maternal mental health on Tuesday, saying almost half of Utah mothers report mental health symptoms before, during [...]

The official child poverty rate is about the same today as in 1967. It stood at 17% in 1967 – just about the same as in 2020. In many recent years the rate hovered even higher – around 20%. [The [...]

The decline in U.S. fertility is closely related to the decline in marriage. Finding the right partner with whom to have children trumps economic reasons. [Wendy Wang – Institute for Family [...]

Many of today’s political conflicts in the United States can be understood as attempts to reconcile earlier understandings of the nation’s identity with what it has become. [Justin Gest – [...]

On key economic outcomes, single adults at prime working age increasingly lag behind those who are married or cohabiting. [Richard Fry and Kim Parker – Pew Research Center, 5 October 2021.] [...]

Kids from higher-income and better educated families spend less time with their parents and more time in the care of others, but they also tend to receive higher quality care compared to children [...]

Despite a string of controversies and the public’s relatively negative sentiments about aspects of social media, roughly seven-in-ten Americans say they ever use any kind of social media site – a [...]