http://www.heritage.org/static/rss/family-and-marriage.xmlFamily and Marriage - The Heritage Foundationen-US© Copyright 2012info@heritage.orgRSS Generator {D901114B-639B-4DA1-B0DE-F9AF83B0ABA7}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/research/commentary/2012/01/why-do-feminists-ignore-gendercideYou’d notice if 160 million women were missing from the U.S. population. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500{5719BF8E-DA8F-47CB-A3B8-1F4F83D61DDF}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/research/commentary/2012/01/politics-at-the-dinner-tableThe race is on. Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:00:00 -0500{C4C4A20E-7D1E-4DBE-914C-B662FE5F12C0}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/research/commentary/2011/12/poor-or-not-marriage-makes-the-differencePoverty and inequality in America are hot topics these days, and not just among the Occupy Wall Street crowd. Yet amid all the chatter, hardly anyone talks about the greatest driver of poverty: the rapidly rising number of babies born to unmarried mothers.Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500{7781BB97-1515-4499-9684-9066CD48ADC6}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/research/commentary/2011/12/why-tim-tebow-keeps-smilingWhen Pam Tebow was counseled to abort her baby to save her own life, the doctor referred to him as a "mass of fetal tissue."Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0500{082DFE88-DDBF-48C0-817A-46B77981BE8F}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/research/commentary/2011/11/single-hope-worth-trying-to-get-married-after-30Kate Bolick has set the chattering class — not to mention the bar scene — abuzz with her cover story for The Atlantic, “All the Single Ladies.” Because she passed up marriage in her late 20s and has concluded that at 39 the possibility has passed her by completely, she declares the end of marriage as her generation’s contribution to history. Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500{B0447D4C-EBBB-4CFB-BA78-0531F6472F93}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/research/commentary/2011/11/making-adoption-a-likely-optionAdoption advocates hope to recruit enough parents to take in the 107,000 children in America’s foster care system who are waiting for permanent families. And it’s not just because November is National Adoption Month. Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:00 -0500{F99C1A8A-2B53-43CC-9984-450D46553CCE}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/research/commentary/2011/11/the-thinker-staying-singleAlongside The Atlantic magazine’s November cover story, “All the Single Ladies,” runs a photograph of its 39-year-old author. In a fawn-colored silk dress and up-do, Kate Bolick contemplatively sips champagne as a bridal bouquet flies over her head.Wed, 02 Nov 2011 01:00:00 -0400{4FC33C7F-8B21-4003-AA0F-88BFD6D389C1}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/research/commentary/2011/10/single-ladies-not-giving-up-on-marriageAlongside The Atlantic magazine’s November cover story, “All the Single Ladies,” runs a photograph of its 39-year-old author. In a fawn-colored silk dress and up-do, Kate Bolick contemplatively sips champagne as a bridal bouquet flies over her head. Fri, 28 Oct 2011 01:00:00 -0400{9D8E9EBB-2330-41D6-997D-33288263CEEC}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/research/commentary/2011/10/it-takes-a-mayor“Many saw me as an unlikely urban champion,” admits Rick Baker, who served two terms as mayor of St. Petersburg, Florida’s fourth-largest city, and was named Governing magazine’s top mayor in 2008. Mayor Baker isn’t just being humble. He’s a social and economic conservative. Conservatives generally aren’t known for leading with an antipoverty, urban renewal agenda. Thu, 13 Oct 2011 01:00:00 -0400{F88B0E7A-D6DB-47C9-86DC-8FFB9B6EC12D}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/research/commentary/2011/09/from-britain-to-us-frank-talk-needed-on-absent-fathersBritain is soul-searching after raging youth mobs, some among them not yet teens, left five people dead and property damages estimated at $325 million in five nights of anarchy.Fri, 30 Sep 2011 01:00:00 -0400{454DAD56-4C74-4E79-8859-82E5F9070663}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/research/commentary/2011/09/josephs-are-poised-to-restore-americaConvicts, gang bangers, addicts and dropouts from across the country descended on Denver the other day.Wed, 21 Sep 2011 01:00:00 -0400{2A9C2DEB-86F3-4F81-B2A5-0CDADE34BE79}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/multimedia/audio/2011/08/istook842-marriage-and-childrenIstookTue, 23 Aug 2011 01:00:00 -0400{3781EFB1-E31E-4FA1-A939-ECE2AE46AA71}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/research/commentary/2011/08/bend-the-baby-curve-like-beckhamOn most days, people around the world admire the footprints of David Beckham. The super-talented British soccer star’s maneuvers around and over flummoxed defenders populate many a YouTube video. Tue, 02 Aug 2011 01:00:00 -0400{8245A149-9DA8-4E18-A507-28F240F69039}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/research/reports/2011/07/same-sex-marriage-and-threats-to-religious-freedom-how-nondiscrimination-laws-factor-inProponents of religious freedom have firmly established that same-sex marriage threatens religious freedom in a number of ways. In response, some have argued that certain threats to religious freedom discussed in this context have more to do with nondiscrimination laws than with the legal status of same-sex marriage. This argument reflects certain realities. Conflicts between same-sex marriage and religious freedom will often involve some type of previously adopted nondiscrimination law or policy, and nondiscrimination laws can impose burdens on religious freedom even in jurisdictions that do not legally recognize homosexual unions as marriages. But neither point diminishes the threat that same-sex marriage poses to religious freedom. Same-sex marriage is likely to trigger a number of conflicts between nondiscrimination laws and religious freedom that otherwise would not exist, and threats to religious freedom are no less troubling because they involve nondiscrimination laws and same-sex marriage, not just same-sex marriage.Fri, 29 Jul 2011 01:00:00 -0400{8C94F8EE-0CA3-4FCC-AE06-3A234A3D104D}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/research/commentary/2011/07/failing-the-character-testSummer vacation is anything but relaxing for those embroiled in the most extensive cheating scandal in the history of American public education.Tue, 26 Jul 2011 01:00:00 -0400{2833B13B-4B01-4B54-BC78-DDCE3FCADE90}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/research/commentary/2011/07/americas-marriage-debate-depends-on-civil-societyAs recent events in New York show, the marriage debate in America takes place amid serious political and legal fault lines. But efforts to defend and strengthen this bedrock institution ultimately depend on how marriage is understood, articulated, and practiced in civil society.Fri, 22 Jul 2011 01:00:00 -0400{BC712D54-2051-4506-80E7-FEFF2C423DAF}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/research/commentary/2011/07/game-on-not-over-for-parentsThe Supreme Court dismayed parents across California's ban on sales of ultra-violent video games to minors.Tue, 05 Jul 2011 01:00:00 -0400{B1A7083C-4D09-4E51-B0C3-FC4E148D23F0}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/research/commentary/2011/06/a-marshall-plan-is-that-a-little-overly-dramaticNo and yes.The problem of family disintegration is approaching that scale. The nation’s out-of-wedlock birth rate is more than 50 percent higher for all women of childbearing age than it was for the black American subset that so troubled the late Pat Moynihan when he wrote his study for the Labor Department in the 1960s. The poverty rate for children born to single parents is nearly five times higher than it is for children born into intact families.Thu, 30 Jun 2011 01:00:00 -0400{58DE1BFD-E45F-4EEF-9DEE-5A39AD9ACC56}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/research/commentary/2011/06/in-politics-as-in-basketball-pride-marks-the-road-to-destructionThe professional basketball season began with a limelight-seeking all-star dominating the coverage. It ended with the most valuable player of the NBA Finals shirking the cameras to savor victory in solitude.Tue, 28 Jun 2011 01:00:00 -0400{13BA46F0-6A89-4BD5-A997-1E85474F08F9}http://www.heritage.org/sitecore/content/home/research/reports/2011/06/5-impacts-of-the-new-york-same-sex-marriage-voteThe N.Y. legislature’s vote to recognize homosexual marriage will have a number of impacts within and well beyond the Empire State.Tue, 28 Jun 2011 01:00:00 -0400