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Lutheran Husband Dad Kentuckian Demographer. Please forgive me: my tweets are often accidentally mean. @DemographicNTEL, @FamStudies Pronatalism Initiative
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'Off With His Head': What Good is Prince Charming?

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By Laurie DeRose, Lyman Stone, Brad Wilcox
| Institute for Family Studies
In the opening scene of Disney’s Shrek (2001), the ogre uses an illustrated fairy tale page as toilet paper, flagrantly signaling the film’s intent to subvert traditional fairy tales. Among the many fairy tale patterns that are overthrown is the symbolism of the prince. Instead of a traditional prince who marries the princess at the end, the hero is an ogre, and the “prince” is a ridiculous control freak. Fairy tales are not superfluous stories that can be subverted without consequence.
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Falling Marriage Caused Turkey's Recent Fertility Decline

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By Lyman Stone
| Substack
And the digital revolution caused falling marriage. 5G won't zap your balls but it will zap your heart. In a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed, Louise Perry said: Among the other beef I have with the article, I feel it’s important to hammer the Turkish point, because Turkey’s sudden massive fall in fertility has caused generalized interest and consternation in many quarters.
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Unspoken: Lost Social Connections and How to Re-Engage

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By Lyman Stone, Amy Becker
| Institute for Family Studies
Have you noticed? Compared to prior decades, we’re spending more time alone. American Time Use Surveys from 2003 to 2024 found that 15- to 25-year-olds’ in-person socializing plummeted—from 60 to 36 minutes a day, with parallel, but lesser, declines among older folks. We’re working more from home. We’re dining out less often with others and more often eating take-out food. We’re shopping more online. Many of us are living alone—with U.S. single-person households having doubled since 1960.
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