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Commentators and policy analysts react to our proposal for a Family Income Supplemental Credit.

American enthusiasm for a per-child family benefit has grown, but details matter and proposals differ widely—as do the programs already established in other nations.

Conservatives have a persistent problem: they often don’t know what it is they want to conserve. This bears on the burgeoning discussion of family policy.

How does the Fisc stack up? Better than a universal child allowance, though I still have concerns.

The experience of “family-friendly” policy abroad makes one lesson clear: no policy is friendly for all families.

American attitudes about family structure vary widely, but most families see a full-time earner and a stay-at-home parent as the ideal arrangement for raising young children.

This paper presents the case for a per-child family benefit that would operate as a form of reciprocal social insurance paid only to working families.

Canadian Conservatives successfully championed universal child benefits and have lessons for their neighbors to the south.

In his introduction to the “Home Building” forum on American Compass, Oren Cass opens by drawing upon Ronald Reagan’s warning that the American culture of freedom must be renewed in Read more…

Addressing America’s fertility crisis happens to be what parents want.

Effective family policy begins from the institution’s ultimate roles and purposes.

The Niskanen Center’s Samuel Hammond and the American Enterprise Institute’s Scott Winship debate the case for a “child allowance.”

Public Policy for the American Family

Across all classes and regardless of parental status, 60 to 75% of Americans say that the government should do more to support families.

Marriage has evolved to meet the ideals of the well-educated and left too many Americans unwed and insecure.

If conservatives do not speak for the family, who will?

Preserving our national inheritance requires public policy to get the family right.