Kevin Roberts

And so what we will continue to do is do research on programs like what you've described.

The second point I will say is, I think there's a real opportunity here for states to participate.

In fact...

As a conservative, I would prefer states to do most policy.

State legislatures could receive block grants from the federal government to go innovate and see over 5 or 10 or 15 years with incentives for them if there is an improvement in both the marriage and birth rates.

No, we don't believe that it is.

There's obviously good for anyone graduating from college, whether men or women.

But we're really concerned about the war on and the crisis of...

in the United States, which doesn't come, obviously, at the expense of women.

The complementarity of men and women should cause us to really be concerned about the thing that sticks out for me, having a then-teenage brother who committed suicide when I was nine, is the quadruple, four times as likely for boys and men in this country to commit suicide than women.

We have a real crisis here in culture, in the economy, in policy, and what we're saying at Heritage is because we're conservatives,

not libertarians, all do respect our libertarian friends, we can see a role for the common good for federal policy to play.

Well, we know that social media has a huge role to play.

In fact, one of the most common critiques that we at Heritage make of social media, especially TikTok, is the effect that it has on young women, especially TikTok on young women, but broadly defined social media.

The breakdown of the family, of course, affects both boys and girls, but also institutions have no longer served any young American well, but I think young men have felt that

particularly profoundly.

And so this goes hand in hand with the big chunk of our family policy paper path that focuses on the diagnosis, where we get into a lot of these cultural and social factors.

At Heritage, we believe very much not just in articulating policies that we'll go fight for, but shoulder to shoulder with fellow Americans, things that we as individuals can change through individual action or at our local level.

And each of us needs to sort of pick up a little bit of the burden to make sure that we're

whether it's suicide, mental health broadly, the dramatic concern that both young men and women have about the inauthenticity of our institutions, that we're doing what we can in our individual, family, and local lives to improve culture because no policy can offset these cultural trends.