Wheatley Family Fellow Jenet Erickson Gives Devotional Address at BYU-Hawaii

Paul Lambert, Wheatley Religion Initiative Director, spoke at Ensign College.

Ian Rowe, Senior Fellow at American Enterprise Institute, visits Wheatley Institute for a lecture on empowering children.

Utahns have a long tradition of showing up with compassion and caring for each other. We each have a role and a responsibility here. We can choose dignity over division. We can disagree better. We can heal together.

A recent article in The New Yorker investigated various AI companion websites, citing a Wheatley Institute report on how dangerous and widespread the use of romantic chatbot services is.

"There are many reasons people choose not to have children or not to get married, but false messages about happiness should not be one of them. The articles I read long ago were right that parenting (and marriage) can often be exhausting. But they ignored the sense of meaning that comes from parenthood and the connection of physical touch at the core of family life."