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.

A weekly round-up of interesting research on demography, family policy, and other family stuff. Along with some mini-takes by yours truly.

Where data meets real life: understanding how marriage and family shape mobility and human flourishing

Catching babies, raising humans, writing nuanced takes on pregnancy, birth and parenting.

I write about all manner of things which interest me. This mostly focuses on debates about the effects of and on family formation and the creation of new human life!

I'm a psychologist and neuroscientist who writes about parenting, neuroscience, biology, relationships and politics. I'm also the author of the book Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How it Shapes Men's Lives (Flatiron Books, 2026).

I like the slow things. Demographics, philosophy, culture, storytelling.

A girl's guide to husband hunting

Lyman Stone is the Director of Research of the consulting firm Demographic Intelligence, the director of the Pronatalism Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies, and a PhD candidate at McGill University.

Analysis, future-casting, and philosophizing on child care & family policy from Elliot Haspel

Caplan and Candor

A podcast about culture and politics, hosted by Louise Perry.

Children are good! I work on the birth rate challenge through the Boom Campaign and as Head of the New Deal for Parents at Onward.

Ideas for reversing the collapse in global fertility, the greatest challenge of our age. Humanity is precious.

How we can make it easier to choose to have children, for everyone.