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The American Mind

Family Policy | Cincinnatus Series

The American Mind

Amanda Callanan

Philosophy, Declarationofindependence, Founding, Politics, Conservative, Limitedgovernment, Society & Culture, News, Constitution, Claremontinstitute

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Following the social revolutions of decades past, liberal sex education reforms, and the devaluation of marriage, Conservatives can no longer ignore the social aspects of family lifeparamount to preserving and promoting the traditional householdand must recognize the use of laws to heal our culture. Host Ryan Williams is joined by Scott Yenor, Kathleen O’Toole, and Chris Bullivant to discuss how states may empower parents to raise and school their children, boost fertility and attract young families, and close the class divide in marriage and family formation outcomes.

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coming up on this episode of The Roundtable.

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Married people are happier and thrive more and live longer than single people.

0:10.2

And so that sex is subordinate to the experience of marriage ultimately.

0:16.6

And like, that's what, that's an element of what proper sex education would be.

0:22.6

You know, people should know that young women, it's easier to have children when you're

0:28.0

young than when you're over 35, and so that you should plan your life accordingly.

0:34.2

And so that should be integrated into what people know about themselves.

0:40.3

And these truths, you know, they're not readily available.

0:45.3

And in fact, the whole sex education, the liberationist sex education, the comprehensive sex education that is offered,

0:53.3

tries to obscure these facts and tries to deny these facts.

0:56.8

And so, you know, I think states could really think through

1:00.2

what the goal of proper sex education is.

1:03.7

What truths would you like to convey in it?

1:10.7

You know, It was a Welcome, everyone to another edition of our Cincinnati series here at the American Mind at the Claremont Institute.

1:45.6

Your host, Ryan Williams, we're doing this for the next few weeks. We've been doing it now for a few weeks.

1:51.0

We hope to offer especially state legislators across America with ideas on what exactly to do about family policy, about education,

2:00.0

about some of these topics that are in the middle

2:02.1

of our current culture war.

2:04.0

We'll bring on experts and friends to talk about these things.

2:07.6

So we're going to be talking about family policy this week, and I'm joined once again by now

2:12.5

veteran of this series, Scott Yenner, my colleague, our director of senior director of state

2:17.2

coalitions at the Center for the American Way of Life, and also a professor at Boise State University, joined as well by my old friend and old friend of Claremont Kathleen O'Toole, who's the assistant provost for K-12 education at Hillsdale College. And also, I should add, relevant for our previous episodes on education, if you want

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