The Positive Impact of Marriage and Family Life

Wade F. Horn, Ph.D.
Assistant Secretary for Children and Families U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Dr. Horn will highlight the necessity of strengthening marriage and family life. The paper will explore the necessity of the family as a social institution, examine the relationship between the family and the state, and offer principles that should guide a prudent family policy. The paper will discuss how governments can help families in direct and tangible ways, including strengthening marriage and providing supports to children from every family situation. But the paper also suggests indirect measures that are also necessary if governments wish to help families in the long-term. Those indirect measures include strengthening the family as a social institution, respecting the family as a self-governing entity, and taking steps to allow the family to thrive on its own within society.

Read The Papers' Abstract:

• The Positive Impact of Marriage and Family Life By Wade F. Horn, Ph.D.

• The Family in Modern Economic Life By Dr. Gary S. Becker

• Blessing or Bane? The Role and Problems of Media in the Modern Family By Larrie E. Gale, Ph.D.

• "What's Happening to the Family?" By Joseph Chamie Director

• Paper Abstract of Georges Haddad Director Division of Higher Education UNESCO

• The Complementarity of Motherhood and Fatherhood: A Tour de Force of the Relevant Social Science By W. Bradford Wilcox

• Paper Abstract of Norval under the topic of Poromotal Marital and Social Stability