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A weekly update on the policies and ideas that can better support parents and strengthen families as the essential building block of a healthy society...and one or two other things as well.
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You Keep Using That Word. I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means. (opens the original)
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This week’s newsletter brought to you by the Pit of Despair — otherwise known as being a fan of the Seattle Mariners Baseball Club. Is This a Kissing Book?: Anna Louie Sussman tackles the “impossibility of family” New Polling Update: Life is pain, Highness. Anyone who says differently is selling something.Parting ShotsIs This a Kissing Book?There are few journalists today working on questions of family better at capturing the zeitgeist of the liberal elite than Anna Lo
Who Run the World? (opens the original)
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O-o-o-o-klahoma, where the wind comes sweeping down the plains, Family Matters is taking the show on the road to OKC (and environs) next month, October 7 and 8. If you (or someone you know) has got a hankerin’ to talk family policy or can show me where to find a nice surrey with the fringe on top, please feel free to reach out. You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby: Household income is at an all-time high and child poverty is at an all-time low — but no one seems happySurrogacy Under Scrutiny: More repor
Slow News Week (opens the original)
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Twenty-five years ago tomorrow, Christine Lee Hanson, two-and-a-half years old, boarded United Flight 175 with her parents en route to a family trip to Disneyland. She would become the youngest of the 2,977 victims who perished in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. May Christine’s memory, along with all those killed in New York, Washington, and Shanksville, be a blessing.Child Care, Welfare, and Stay-at-Home Parents: Responding to the response<str
What a Way to Make a Livin' (opens the original)
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A brief update on Rep. Jimmy Gomez, the subject of last week’s Family Matters: The day after the item about Rep. Jake Auchincloss resigning his membership in the Congressional Dads Caucus was published here, the Washington Examiner reported that Rep. Gomez has been quietly
Holding Out for a Hero (opens the original)
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Surprise! It’s Family Matters, on a Thursday! For those of you who missed last week’s announcement, that’s how we’re going to be rolling for the foreseeable future. Where Have All the Good Men Gone?: Making the personal political doesn’t lead to better politics‘Much Ado About Nothing’: A new paper on private equity and child careAnti-Anti-Family Policy: Updates from the city that never
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