Public Education

Become your own marriage and family expert by browsing our various materials below on such trending topics as Divorce, Cohabitation, Dating, Fatherhood, Family Structure, Marital Health, and Parenting.

Featured COntent:
50% of Americans 18 and over are married.
3mil children live with unmarried parents.
22% of Millenials are married.
69% of America’s children live in two-parent families.
50% of people between 15-44 have cohabited in their lifetimes.
7.5% of married-couple families live in poverty.
Video Resources

Below are a variety of video resources featuring IFS Experts discussing important marriage and family topics:

Difference Between Married vs. Single Americans

The Dr. Phil Show featuring Brad Wilcox

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Implications of Fatherless Homes: Brad Wilcox

Conversations With Bob Denton via Blue Ridge PBS

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The Case for We-Before-Me: Brad Wilcox

Conversations with John Anderson

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3 Plus Your Family

Local 3 News—Interview with Brad Wilcox

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Why Conservatives Are Happy and Liberals Are Sad

Breaking Points featuring Brad Wilcox

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COVID and Relationships

Scripps TV

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Testosterone, Sex, Love, & Marriage

Family Matters—Deseret News and Institute for Family Studies

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Soulmates Are Fake

American Moment PodcasT
 

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The Difference (Black) Dads Make

Family Matters, IFS and Deseret News

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Cash or Childcare? What Do American Parents Want?

Family Matters, IFS and Deseret News

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A Conversation on Child Care

IFS and Plough Quarterly

IFS senior fellow W. Bradford Wilcox hosts a conversation between J.D. Vance and Jenet Erickson on Biden's childcare plan, marriage, and family.

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More Work, Fewer Babies

Institute for Human Ecology at Catholic University

IFS senior fellow Laurie DeRose and IFS research fellow Lyman Stone discuss their new report, More Work, Fewer Babies, with Brad Wilcox

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The Social Divide

Sarkes Tarzian Television

Brad Wilcox featured in a new documentary film following five working families across America 

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How Did Coronavirus Affect Teens?

CNN

Jean Twenge discusses the IFS/Wheatley Institutution report, Teens in Quarantine

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UVA Sociology Professor Says Divorce Rates Are Down in 2020

NBC 29

IFS senior fellow W. Bradford Wilcox is quoted in this TV news spot on the divorce rate.

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Marriage in Post-Covid America

Institute for Family Studies Webinar

IFS senior fellow W. Bradford Wilcox talks with Professor Eli Finkel, author of The All-or-Nothing Marriage

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Getting Real About Screen Time Amidst Coronavirus

Institute for Family Studies Webinar

Psychologist Jean Twenge discusses the latest research on how screen time impacts teens, and offers tips for parents during this pandemic

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Will the Coronavirus Boost Fertility?

Institute for Family Studies Webinar

IFS research fellow Lyman Stone discusses the impact of COVID-19 on fertility rates in a special IFS webinar.

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Cohabitation Does Not Equal Marriage

AEI ReThink Tank

IFS senior fellow W. Bradford Wilcox explains why cohabitation is still not the ideal environment for raising children.

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Failing the Basic Journalism Test

SkyNews/The Bolt Report

IFS senior fellow W. Bradford Wilcox is interviewed in this segment of The Bolt Report about a recent ABC-Australia article on domestic violence and the church.

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Why Your Wedding Day Matters

CBN News

IFS senior fellow W. Bradford Wilcox is interviewed about the importance of preparing for marriage in this report by CBN News.

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Millennials, Marriage, and Success

EWTN

IFS senior fellow W. Bradford Wilcox is interviewed on EWTN News Nightly about how following the "success sequence" (that is, earning at least a high school degree, getting a job, and marrying before having children—in that order) is linked to financial success for Millennials.

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The Millennial "Success Sequence" in 60 Seconds

AEI

IFS senior fellow W. Bradford Wilcox explains the Millennial "success sequence" in 60 seconds in this video produced by the American Enterprise Institute.

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Be a Man. Get Married. 

PragerU

Is bachelor life really the good life? Playing the field, traveling the world, and focusing on career sounds better than tying the knot. But is it possible that married men have more sex and make more money than their single counterparts? Brad Wilcox, sociologist at the University of Virginia, explains.

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Poverty, Family, and Economics

AEI

An interview with Brad Wilcox, AEI visiting scholar and director of the National Marriage Project at University of Virginia, on the importance of marriage for social mobility, the growing marriage divide, and how to build successful marriages.

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BBC One Breakfast

Prof Brad Wilcox discusses the findings of his new study that reveals that the United Kingdom has one the highest rates of family instability in the developed world.

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How Marriage Helps a Man's Career

Fox News

An interview with Brad Wilcox discussing study revealing how marriage helps a man's career.

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Divorce Q&A Website

​Have questions about the causes and consequences of divorce?  Our specially designed divorce education website will help you find the answers you need.

Go to YourDivorceQuestions.Org

Media Kit

For media inquiries, please contact Chris Bullivant (chris@ifstudies.org). We encourage members of the media interested in learning more about the people and projects behind the work of the Institute for Family Studies to get started by perusing our "Media Kit" materials below.

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Media Inquiries

For media inquiries, contact Chris Bullivant (chris@ifstudies.org).

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