My latest for @CityJournal:
"For Americans under 30...desired family size was about 1.7 children. For those with the most supportive friends, it was 2.8. That is a full extra child, associated with nothing more than having trusted friends who show up."
For Americans under 30 with the least supportive friends, desired family size was about 1.7 children. For those with the most supportive friends, it was 2.8.
Social scientists often concentrate on religion when looking at birth rates—but helpful friends matter just as much, if
"Americans are not having fewer children because they want fewer children. They are having fewer children, in part, because friendship has thinned and social support for family life has weakened."
Read @robkhenderson in @CityJournal on an important new @FamStudies report:
More New York families are choosing alternatives to public schools: homeschooling has grown by 126% over the past decade, and charter schools now serve over 180,000 students, up from 125,000 ten years ago.
Read more from @dany_egorov: city-journal.org/article/new-yo…
There are some hard truths about homelessness:
- Homelessness is inextricably linked to drug use and mental illness, and to the behaviors associated with them
- Failure to remove encampments entrenches homelessness in a community
- Even when homeless people with addictions are
Do the rich stay rich throughout generations? It depends on which groups you look at.
European immigrants who came to America between 1850 and 1924 arrived with very little money—but their descendants caught up to the native white population by the late 20th century.
There's
We have a conservative Supreme Court, not a Trump Court, @ishapiro argues.
The end of another high-profile term makes clear that the justices are far from letting the president do whatever he wants.
Two teachers' unions in New York filed a lawsuit to prevent the transfer of a charter from Success Academy to Strive Charter School.
Earlier this year, the New York State United Teachers sued to block new charters on Long Island and previously tried to prevent Vertex Charter
Despite political strife and skepticism about the nation’s future, the majority of adult Americans say that they are happy: Gallup polls regularly show that nearly 80% of citizens are satisfied with their own lives.
Read more from Ryan L. Cole: city-journal.org/article/americ…
Michael Swiney, a "social-and-emotional-learning coach" at Hollymead Elementary School, had been meeting one-on-one with students without parents' knowledge.
He's now been charged with 11 felony counts of sexual abuse.
One parent alleged that Swiney had locked her son in his
My latest @CityJournal: When schools deliver "mental health" services, parents lose all the protections of a regulated behavioral health profession. That's by design.
Last month police charged a Virginia "SEL Coach" for sexually abusing at least 4 children - police suspect more
