Dr. Kevin Roberts
speaker
129 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 22 Feb
Dr. Kevin Roberts’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 3 in all, peaking in Feb 2026 with 1.
Appearances
What we're arguing, bottom line at Heritage, is that we want to invert those policies and actually eliminate those disincentives and use a couple of tax credits to incentivize what we think will be a modest uptick in marriage and birth.
If we do that, and if we see an improvement in those even more important factors of culture, society, and economics, I think we can see a reversal in this downward trend of the American family.
It is the single greatest indicator of stability and success.
In fact, to your point about the research, all, all of the social science research from the leaning politically left, leaning politically right, all of it bears that out.
And it reminds me of one of the studies that former Education Secretary Bill Bennett made.
He was trying to get at with some great research, you know, what are those factors that go into a poor child's success?
And ultimately what it boiled down to, it wasn't even the school that they went to.
It wasn't after school study to sort of improve someone's skills in something like math.
It was the fact that when that child woke up, regardless of how rich or poor his or her family was,
that they woke up in a family.
And that remains true.
And so what we're saying at Heritage is, if in fact we want to expand upon what we truly believe can be the golden age of America and be successful with all of our policies at home and abroad, at the heart of that success moving forward has to be the restoration of the American family.
And we're urging policymakers in Washington and in state capitals to participate in this restoration.
No, it's true.
In the same way that politics has replaced religion for so many leftist Americans, the government has replaced the institution of the family for so many Americans.
And so our argument at Heritage is we ultimately have to focus on those
factors that are upstream of politics and policies culture society economics but that downstream of them have been some government policies that actually have changed behavior and so let us have the boldness let us frankly have the hopefulness about the future that through a couple of tax credits that we can
amplify some of the decisions that Americans want to make to restore that beautiful image that you mentioned.
It doesn't ultimately mean that every woman needs to say, we're going to have nine children or any specific number of children, as much as as an institution, we want the American family to be revitalized.
I think so.
Showing 81–100 of 129 · page 5 of 7
← Previous
Next →