Fox & Friends Weekend Urges Family-First Policies, Citing 40% of U.S. Births Outside Marriage
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Updated · Fox News · May 15
Fox & Friends Weekend Urges Family-First Policies, Citing 40% of U.S. Births Outside Marriage
1 articles · Updated · Fox News · May 15
Mother's Day and National Foster Care Month framed a Fox & Friends Weekend opinion piece that urged policymakers to put mothers and babies first, while highlighting Texas teen Liberty Grace Mauldin's adoption after 10 years in foster care.
Phyllis Schlafly's legacy anchored the argument: the piece said feminism and taxpayer-funded day care devalue motherhood, and it called marriage a key benefit for children as 40% of U.S. births occur outside marriage.
Tax policy was the main prescription, with the article urging Congress to raise the dependent deduction instead of expanding child-care subsidies, which it said reward bureaucracies and institutional providers over families.
The broader message cast stay-at-home or flexible work as the real choice many mothers want, arguing that family control—not government programs—should shape child care and household decisions.
As US birth rates hit a new low, can tax policy alone fix the economic barriers that stop young people from starting families?
If most young adults still want kids, why has the dream of marriage and family become so hard to achieve in today's economy?