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Heritage Foundation reports on 'America's family crisis'

The Heritage Foundation, a conservative policy group that was involved in the development of the Republican agenda for the second Trump presidency, Project 2025, published a report on Jan. 8 aimed at reshaping U.S. family policy.

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The Heritage Foundation, authors of Project 2025, has released a new blueprint to "save America by saving the family." Critics warn the policy proposals push women toward greater economic dependence on men, by promoting policies designed to pressure women into marriage and motherhood. #Velshi

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-- Ali Velshi (@velshi.com) Mar 15, 2026 at 1:44 PM

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... Titled "Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years," the report assumes a "family crisis" in the United States that must be ended by "restoring the family home" based on what it calls "two truths": "The first is that all children have a right to the affection and protection of the man and woman who created them. The second is that the ideal environment in which to exercise this right is in a loving and stable home with their married biological parents."

"The ultraconservative forces in the country keep giving us blueprints, and we keep thinking they don't mean what they say," Jessica Waters, senior scholar in residence in the Department of Justice, Law and Criminology at the American University's School of Public Affairs, told the American Independent. "Like Project 2025, for example, you know, there was a lot of, like, Oh, you know, it's just the report from this ultraconservative group, and it ended up actually being the blueprint for much of what the Trump administration is doing." ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-16 02:27 AM

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... Why the report matters

Grossman said the authors are likely following up on the success of Project 2025 as a blueprint for federal and state policy.

"I think probably a group like Heritage Foundation is looking at what the Trump administration has implemented over just the very short first year of this second term, and how much of it maps on specifically to what was laid out in Project 2025, and probably thinking that this sort of a blueprint model is actually a good mechanism for getting things adopted by the people currently holding power in both the federal government and in lots of state governments," she said.

Waters said: "There are very few people who are going to fall into what this report considers to be a good family. And, you know, that is, frankly, by my read, a white woman marrying a white man who then has a lot of children, and the woman does not work, and she stays at home, and she's a stay-at-home mother. I think this is a real push: Women back in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant." ...


#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-16 02:31 AM

@#2 ... the woman does not work, and she stays at home, and she's a stay-at-home mother. I think this is a real push: Women back in the kitchen, barefoot and pregnant. ...

I have said previously on this most august site a conversation I had with an in-law over a Thanksgiving dinner.

It was back before MAGA was even MAGA. But he told me that women should not be allowed to work, that they should stay at home, pregnant and working in the kitchen to feed their husbands when they came home from work.

Since it was a Thanksgiving dinner, I let that comment go and asked him to please pass the yams ...

But, wow.


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-03-16 02:37 AM

What backwards thinking. That genie is never going back in the bottle. Just more white male fantasy.

#4 | Posted by fresno500 at 2026-03-16 04:10 AM

There will be no moral revival in this country for as long as a sexual criminal is protecting his sexually criminal friends.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2026-03-16 08:04 AM

"Heritage Foundation reports on America's family crisis'"

Laments the people who support the adjudicated rapist who has five children from three different women, intruded into dressing rooms with naked underage teen girls, cheated on his pregnant mail order bride with a corn star, and Epsteined some kids.

#6 | Posted by censored at 2026-03-16 09:04 AM

"The first is that all children have a right to the affection and protection of the man and woman who created them."

Very few Republicans got those things, or give them to their children.

Trump, for example, didn't get those things, and doesn't provide them for his children, and that's why Republicans identify with him on such a fundamental, personal basis.

#7 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-03-16 10:03 AM

I wonder how $5 per gallon gas effects the American family.

HF supports the war in Iran.

#8 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-03-16 11:56 AM

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