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If we want a smaller government, we need stronger families.
President Donald Trump passed Ministry of Government Efficiency (DOGE) It is possible to change the trajectory of the country. But Trump can only fulfill this promise by reducing wasteful spending. American taxpayers are forced to fund DEI programs in Europe, Ecuador’s resistance show and electric vehicle experiments in Asia – turning off this faucet is not enough.
Soon, the Restore U.S. fiscal health Will lead the more politically dangerous path of government, which could include a pruning government program used by millions of Americans.
If this causes our panic, we should ask an obvious question: Why are so millions of Americans relying on programs like housing aid, food stamps, and government-funded health care? In fact, a large part of the answer is the decline of marriage and Family collapse To meet too many of our basic needs, the United States relies on most of its government’s dependence on the majority of its dependence on it on a large scale.
Our country outsourcing the key functions of the family to the country, which doesn’t work. (iStock)
In order for Doge to drive these waters and achieve its ambitious ambitions, it must think along a deeper line of thinking, rather than trimming the federal government’s wasteful plans. It will have to put government power back to smaller units: families, communities and states.
The Christian Virtue Center and the Institute of Family Studies recently collaborated on a collaboration called “Hope and future reports. “The report provides insight into how the decline in marriage rates, especially among low-income Ohioans in Ohio, how poverty, academic failure and violence in our communities drive government.
Consider Child Poverty: In Youngstown, Ohio, 68% of children live in families without married fathers. 50% of Youngstown children are in poverty.
From there, the data tracking is almost a straight line: In Middletown, Ohio, the home of JD Vance’s vice president, 51% of children live in unmarried houses and 26% are in poverty.
Then you will have New Albany, Ohio, where 91% of children grow up in married homes and only 4% of child poverty. More broadly, what we are seeing is that children from single mothers are four times more likely to be impoverished in Ohio than children from married families.
For Doge and any leader interested in expanding the size of the government at the federal or state level, child poverty is their scourge. Children in poverty rely not only on government services, but also on government services for a long time.
Again, visit Ohio for a case study. In Republican Gov. Mike Dewine’s projected budget for 2025, the state budget and management office said Ohio is expected to receive $25.5 billion from the federal government – most for Medicaid, which is targeting low Income children, families and adult programs.
In fact, the household breakdown has a profound relationship with three of the largest programs in state spending. A typical national budget does three things: education, health and public services, and law and order. They educate, take medication and imprisonment.
One of the big things the government spends money is imprisonment. File: Kern Valley State Prison in California (Louis Sinko/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)
88.4% of Ohio’s budget is spent in these three areas, and all three are more expensive when children are not born in the ideal and most stable environment. This is because of school failure, child poverty and anti-social behaviors are more common for children and families in non-independent families.
According to IFS-CCV analysis, children from non-independent families in Ohio were 72% more likely to contact their parents among teachers or principals with behavioral or learning problems than children from complete, married families. National Children’s Health Survey.
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Hope and Future reports include the first ever Family Structure Index, which ranks all 50 states based on the health of its family culture. The index analyzes demographic and fertility data to investigate which states are the strongest, most stable, and most sustainable homes.
Not surprisingly, we see a link between healthy and stable families and the economic well-being of the country. Seven of the top ten states in the Household Structure Index are also in the top ten of the U.S. Legislative Exchange Commission, La Verde’s economic outlook ranking in 2024, which analyzed the lowest tax and regulatory policy states. In other words, the reason why states like Utah, Idaho, and South Dakota do so well economically and financially is that they also have some of the most powerful families in the United States.
For Doge and any leader interested in expanding the size of the government at the federal or state level, child poverty is their scourge. Children in poverty rely not only on government services, but also on government services for a long time.
Elon Musk, who is currently overseeing Trump’s doe, has been a huge advocate of half-family solutions: we should celebrate the kids. But judging by the way his own family was formed, he didn’t seem to appreciate how important marriage is to our children and our country.
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To protect these children from poverty and prevent them from eventually relying on the government, we first need to encourage marriage. Not only will this serve the kids, but in the coming years, the federal and state governments will be even more effective than Musk’s craziest dreams.
Brad Wilcox is a distinguished university professor at the University of Virginia and a senior fellow at the American College of Corporate, and alsomarry: Why Americans must defy the elite, forge strong families and save civilization. ”
Aaron Baer is the chairman of the Center for Christian Virtue.
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