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Research on marriage, family life, and the welfare of children. Follow our writers: https://t.co/uufBc2lvKc ("Of Note" not an endorsement.)

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The Institute for Family Studies
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If we allow our children to be sucked into the spiral of AI dependency, they will lose their abilities to communicate, regulate emotions, and exercise basic critical thinking. @WBLittlejohn @samhiner
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The Institute for Family Studies
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Digital age-gates are rapidly becoming standard in many online contexts, and are now cheap, easy, secure, and effective, argue @WBLittlejohn @samhiner about the new GUARD Act from @HawleyMO
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The Institute for Family Studies
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Pregnancy is Good for Women 🤰 While there are many physical changes that women undergo during pregnancy, the idea that pregnancy and childbearing are somehow ā€œbadā€ is unfounded. @rlhopcro
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The Institute for Family Studies
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While building more houses in general can reduce housing prices enough to boost fertility somewhat, building fewer but bigger homes reduces costs less but increases fertility by twice as much, @lymanstoneky
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The Institute for Family Studies
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šŸ” Why Builders Are Missing the Family Market šŸ˜ļø Family-friendly units have lower vacancies, yet developers keep focusing on studios and one-beds. "It behooves policymakers, developers, and the public at large to take every possible measure to build apartments that are more
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The Institute for Family Studies
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Protecting Kids from Predatory Chatbots Senator @HawleyMO GUARD Act requires AI chatbots to implement age verification systems and bans companies from offering AI companions to minors (including ChatGPT in its current form). @WBLittlejohn @samhiner
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The Institute for Family Studies
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Of Note: New from @pewresearch 12th grade girls are less likely than boys to say they want to get married someday
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The Institute for Family Studies
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Marion County and Cook County are both building apartments at a similar pace. But Marion Co. is also building lots of single-family homes, reports @lymanstoneky
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The Institute for Family Studies
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AI Should Serve, Not Prey Upon Humans We must demand that our AI labs compete with China by creating purpose-built industrial, military, and scientific AI applications, not humanoid slop-generators, write @WBLittlejohn and @samhiner
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The Institute for Family Studies
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Standing for Marriage—Despite DivorcešŸ’ The emotional toll of enduring marital betrayal can be acute. One study likened the effect of spousal abandonment to the excruciating attachment injuries suffered by infants separated from their mothers, @BeverlyWillett writes, yet some
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