The future of the American family depends on Americans' ability to agree on the role government should play in supporting marriage and raising children—so how can voters bridge political gaps and come together in support of the family?

Helping young people achieve their life goals of marriage is deeply important because a happy marriage is one of the best predictors of life satisfaction for men and women. Accordingly, in this report from the Institute for Family Studies and the Wheatley Institute, we sought to find the top attitudes and behaviors that were predictive of a high quality and stable marriage in a recent survey of married men and women.

This year marks the tenth fielding of the American Family Survey, a collaborative effort between the Wheatley Institute and Center for the Study of Elections and Democrat at Brigham Young University and the Deseret News.

Janet Jacob Erickson authors article about the truth of the maternal instinct myths.

Rachel Miner, a Wheatley Student Scholar, received much-deserved recognition for her hard work in the human rights and religious freedom spheres.

Lois M. Collins of Deseret News answers why kid's screen time might be a smaller problem than you think in an article from June 2022. Using research from the "Teaching by Example" report released from the Wheatley Institute, Collins explains that technology use by parents might have a bigger impact on children than the children's own use.