Some questions have uncomfortable answers. For example, no one at a Georgetown cocktail party wants to admit the solution to intergenerational poverty cycles is marriage. Polite society will talk for ...

A version of this story appears in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. It’s hard to believe today, when the vast majority of Americans support it, but just ...

The science could not be clearer: On average, the children of married parents are more likely to experience happier, healthier and more successful lives. Brookings Institution scholar Melissa Kearney ...

America’s cultural foundations are cracking. Marriage has been redefined and weakened, the family cast aside as outdated, and traditional ideas of manhood attacked as toxic. The result is a nation of ...

When European travelers first encountered the Warlpiri of Australia’s Outback or the Kalapalo of the Amazon Basin in the 19th century, at least one institution would have been familiar amid the welter ...

With each passing week, there seem to be more and more articles on how and why marriage as we have known it the past century or two is changing drastically. While many will say they don't like the way ...

Do you view marriage as the natural next step in your relationship or do other goals take precedence? Here’s how your “marriage mindset” impacts this decision. Research published in the Journal of ...

Focus on the Family recently surveyed more than 3,800 Americans on how faith impacts personal decisions about marriage and recorded married respondents’ self-assessments of their unions. The good news ...

New York Times columnist David Brooks writes: When I’m around young adults I like to ask them how they are thinking about the big commitments in their lives: what career to go into, where to live, ...