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July 14, 2026

To Have More Children, Americans First Need to Have More Friends

A new fertility study’s surprising finding.

In their recent essay, “America’s Hebraic Awakening,” Jonathan Silver and Eric Cohen examine how the biblical inheritance can help address our country’s various social ills, among them both the so-called “loneliness epidemic” and the decline in marriage, family formation, and fertility. A recent report by the Institute for Family Studies shines light on the relationship between these phenomena, and perhaps on how to ameliorate them. Robert Henderson notes that the authors

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