Patrick T. Brown
@PTBwrites
Fellow, @EPPCDC, working on pro-family policy. "Contributes" (?) to @PublicDiscourse, @Deseret, @TheDispatch. I had a marvelous time ruining everything.
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I can't believe how long they kept this Tweet up. An all-time legend
The President can, it turns out, just do things.
Outstanding news from the White House. President Trump’s new executive order aggressively shifts federal homelessness policy toward treatment, civil commitment, and law enforcement crackdowns—ditching harm reduction in favor of public safety and institutionalization.
Oh, that is a real shame -- not just the fact that kids won't have it to look forward to any more, but the throwing in of the towel on efforts to cultivate the habit for future readers
In an email to staff today, the New York Times announced that it is ending its New York Times for Kids monthly print section.
We are approaching a demographic disaster and adults want more child-free spaces. The late great policy professor, James Q. Wilson used to say "sometime in the 1960s, the American adult decided that their own self-interest was more important than their children's…
We are orienting our cities around dogs—not families: 🧵👇🏼
Dog parks go up while playgrounds shut down. Dog spas and fake-grass “runs” top the list of most common new apartment amenities. Playgrounds and kid-friendly spaces? Nowhere to be found. We are physically rebuilding our cities around dogs—at the expense of families.
Yale ends gender-affirming medication for minors, will continue mental health support Yale Medicine and Yale New Haven Hospital's pediatric gender program will no longer offer the medication treatment component of its services to patients under 19 years old, according to a…
Maybe some of the Federal dollars that went to Planned Parenthood for "family planning" can be redirected to PSA campaigns targeted to young women on the satisfaction of being a mom.
One paper that could give populist Republicans some ideas for approaches was recently released by @amrenewctr's @paigeagostin: americarenewing.com/issues/primer-… As I write in this week's "Family Matters," an admin that put families at the top of the ticket should shape the agenda
“It’s a disease” - Lucas Giolito on Sports Betting via Newsweek. He’s absolutely right.
Coupling rates and divorce rates are both in pretty obvious decline, at the same time. It's sort of interesting that NYC media runs a lot of essays about how shitty marriage is these days when the real story is that marriage is becoming much rarer and much more stable. Today's…
The new data is in: Divorce probabilities for couples who married more recently start out much lower. Estimates from Yifeng Wan @UVA: ifstudies.org/blog/no-longer…
actually fertility experts talk about this all the time. we write papers on it. we mention it in every podcast. fertility dilettantes talk past it. posting a lot about fertility =/= expert
For reasons I don't understand, fertility experts routinely talk past an elephant in the room: the declining birthrate is downstream of declining relationship formation. I suppose "selfish couples who hate babies" are a more respectable topic than the death of romance (and sex)?
I am all for adult-only places. Closing a ZOO to kids for an entire SATURDAY is a sign of a sick culture, though.
Seattle's @woodlandparkzoo is closing for the day this Saturday to host a day-long "21+ zoo adventure" for adults online. Really do not love it - zoos are for kids.